Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of newspapers, the New York Herald Tribune declared: "It is a pact for peace . . . essentially and inescapably defensive ... No nation that respects the rights of its neighbors need fear the pact; only a guilty conscience could see a threat in its terms...
...strikes for steady employment at higher wages, shorter hours, and more comfortable working conditions. The public, Dr. Compton said, wants the quality of goods to go up and the price to go down. Business wants higher profits. People was better housing and better health. Governments, in our expanding civilization, need more tax money...
Three School professors will speak at today's session. Dr. Stuart S. Stevenson, associate in child health, will discuss the need, aims, and limitations of the school health program, and Harold C. Stuart, professor of Maternal and Child Health, will survey "Growth and Development--Factors Influencing Variability...
...original federal rent controls were a wartime measure, but they were drawn up to meet a serious problem that was rooted well back before the war: the fact that American builders cannot afford to put up housing for people who need it. Even in the depression year of 1933, with an estimated 5,000,000 vacant dwelling units, there was a 20 to 30 percent shortage of housing facilities for lower income groups. The causes for this condition continue, most important being the high cost of building materials and capital, ancient and discriminatory building codes, and restrictive measures by unions...
...Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts was little more than a musical cafeteria where its 50 students could nibble at courses as they pleased. Established as a profit-making corporation, it had not made a profit in decades; it did not own a typewriter and did not really need one because its director could not afford a secretary...