Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the freshman Redbook is on trial for its life. The Student Council expects a full report on its current investigation of the Redbook sometime next term, and growing Council opposition may possibly result in total abandonment of the Redbook after this year...
...buyer of the lot will be required to allow a small lunchroom which serves MTA employees to remain at the present low rental and may be forced to keep some of the area open to parking...
Although there is no doubt that the Real Estate lobby stopped the Bill, it is difficult to understand the opposition. Considering the gravity of the present housing crisis (estimates of the need run as high as 1.5 million units per year until 1960), it was a mild proposal which had almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend...
...supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for the income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January 3, cannot long delay a start toward improving a situation in which one third of the nation lacks adequate shelter...
Heath's arrangement is to take each slobbering tot onto his knee, ask it what it wants for a present, listen enraptured to its answer, mutter something about "seeing to it", ask the attendant mother if the little dear has been a good child during the year, and finally give it a funny book. Unfortunately the funny books ran out long ago, so all Heath can offer is a cheery laugh and a pat on the back...