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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facilities Offset High Rents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Operation Begins At Harvardevens Housing Project | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

...higher rents," Francis said, "are partially offset by additional facilities, such as heat, hot water, and electricity, included in the rent. Also, as the project must, of necessity, be a self-supporting community, operating costs will be higher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Operation Begins At Harvardevens Housing Project | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

...brand-new book, and it's hard to say which seems older. There is no question which seems pleasanter: the tunes borrowed from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller and The Serenade are melodious and nicely sung. But they are not quite pleasant enough to offset the damp-towel libretto or save an evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Operetta | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...from the manpower pool remaining after the draft-exempt had been siphoned off, the Army expected to get 200,000 draftees by the time the new law expires in April. With a prospect of 150,000 re-enlistments and volunteers to help offset discharges, the Army thought it could just about meet its authorized April strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Citizens Only | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems to have for masses of people throughout the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stowe's World | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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