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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rent Controls. Allows residential rent increases of 20% over June 1947 levels (rents have already gone up about 17½% on an average since then). Allows rent rollbacks to pre-Korea levels in areas where new war work makes housing short...
...appropriation could be paid to the head of a" department who, in the past five years, had been with a firm which acted for a foreign government. Though it named no names, it was directed solely at Dean Acheson, whose former Washington law firm (Covington & Burling) has represented pre-Communist Poland, Iran and Pakistan...
...largest lecture room was once a subway car barn, its campus is still the city streets, its study halls are still the handiest park benches. Yet in three lean years, the Free University of Berlin has grown into a vigorous symbol of academic liberty. While its famed pre-Nazi counterpart, in the East sector of Berlin, withers and dies from an overdose of Communist dialectic, the Free University may well become the birthplace of a more widespread liberal education than Germany has ever before attained. Last week the young institution got a generous gift of the one thing it needed...
...More than the entire world's pre-World War II supply...
...from a current supply, but they did not dread death or any other misfortune. Their two-tube brains had no memories to plague them with apprehension. So they crept in innocent bliss around the Walter house, alternately resting and sipping electricity like a mechanical Adam & Eve in a pre-reptilian Garden...