Word: parcelled
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...smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
Stiff federal regulations also will slow building; e.g., because the new highways must have milder curves, contractors will cut through hills, not go around them. The demand for better roads will give an edge to the big contractors, since state highway officials are expected to parcel out longer pieces of road in a single contract, rather than chop them up in six-or seven-mile bits for smaller local operators. This should not pinch the small man, because the pie is big enough for all. But it will make for efficiency. As U.S. Public Roads Commissioner C. D. Curtiss said...
...mail leaving the city, Cambridge, 38 merely bundles it and sends it to the main Cambridge Post Office in Central Square. Cambridge 39, or Cambridge A, as it is often called, handles the classification of the mail from there. With Parcel Post, however, the local office must deal with an unusually large number of packages, mainly because Harvard has so many students whose homes are at a considerable distance from Cambridge. These packages are put in sacks according to state or foreign destination, and three times a day are sent to the railway station for distribution...
...Rentals have climbed from an average $4.75 to $5.25 per sq. ft. in the past five years, and the vacancy rate runs at a minuscule 1.4%. Such speedy renting and high occupancy has made possible a novel technique for financing construction. The builder either options or purchases a parcel of land, has an architect draw up building plans, and on that basis signs up prospective tenants. Commitments in hand, he then goes to a bank or insurance company, which advances the financing and enables him to build...
...Commonweal, selected ten assistants, undertaken a twelve-month study. Published last month, Cogley's report found that blacklisting of Communists, "unrehabilitated" ex-Communists and Commie liners was 1) "almost universally accepted as a fact of life" in Hollywood, 2) prevalent in radio and TV, 3) part and parcel of life in the Manhattan advertising agencies that have powerful influence on radio and TV programming. But Cogley's findings were poorly catalogued, highly opinionated, unbalanced, and in some instances, incomplete...