Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action in the second half found Harvard battling the elements as much as the Cadets. Playing gamely, the Crimson threatened to make a tight contest out of it in the third period. But a goal by Army's Pete Cranblat put the game out of reach...
...conditioning, they sell for only $14,500. In high-cost Chicago, similar-sized homes built by time-consuming conventional methods would ordinarily carry price tags of about $25,000. Thanks to such easy terms as $350 down and monthly mortgage payments of $125, National's module homes will reach families with incomes as low as $6,500 a year...
...Chicago project symbolizes today's expanding effort by both government and private enterprise to reach the long-elusive goal of providing good low-cost dwellings for the nation's poor and near poor. Over the past three decades, Washington has poured some $6.5 billion into housing subsidies and urban renewal, committed at least another $13 billion as yet unspent to the same controversial programs. Yet one recent White House report estimated that 8,300,000 Americans still cannot afford a decent place to live...
...goal will be difficult to reach. Congress has already proved tightfisted with appropriations. Beyond that, builders correctly fear that any sudden leap toward 2,600,000 homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...
...their own in-house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...