Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most pressing and controversial items which will come before the 81st Congress is public housing. A serious problem long before the War, it remained unsolved in the last session when the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill failed to win approval. It is understood that two housing bills will be given to the President this week to insure prompt attention in the next session...
There is no easy or quick solution to the housing problem. Though long overdue, any program must be long range and well organized. All public measures must aim primarily at stimulating the private builder, for only he can 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...
...giving a girl a Christmas gift your guess is as good as hers. An informal poll of local womens' colleges showed that, to a girl, they prefer their presents to be secrets until Christmas morning. That decision bolsters any Yuletime sentimentality which might be slipping, and tosses the problem right back into the means hands. You could always give up without a fight and ask her roommate or best friend--who probably has inside information about what she wants anyway--to do the job of shopping for you. That's the 97-pound-weakling approach...
...prefer to shrug off the whole problem can fall back on scarves--either silk or nylon squares or heavy wool plaid mufflers; leather belts, or gold and silver evening belts; or a ski socks-and-mittens set, or fur earmuffs...
...want to know what I am doing? I am looking for a home. That is the problem. And I am going to call it "THE WOLERY...