Word: reale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow Boston voters will elect a new mayor for a city that is sick. Patronage pressures have expanded the city payroll to extravagant size, boosting the city budget. The incredibly high real estate tax--now $101.20 per $1000 assessed--has discouraged new building and driven some long established business to other cities. As they leave the tax base shrinks, and the city is forced to increase the tax rate for those who remain. And Boston faces other, secondary problems too: public transportation, inadequate parking, the "abatement racket," and juvenile delinquency, to name just a few. As the suburbs enjoy booms...
...these charges were being prepared and delivered the real issues took second place, although the candidates did present vague, nearly similar programs. Both recognized the central problem: to reduce the city payroll, and to institute sound, efficient accounting and auditing methods...
...central issue, however, is Boston's abnormally small tax base, and the resultingly high tax rate. Of the twenty largest U.S. cities, Boston is the only one which relies solely on real estate taxation to provide operating funds each year. And the large amount of tax-free property within the city itself--Boston College, Boston University, Simmons College, several large hospitals, numerous churches--imposes an additional burden...
...difficulty of getting an international group exercising control over even such a conspicuous activity as testing bombs does not augur well for world disarmament plans, but if new suggestions such as Lloyd's continue to be produced, the hope for real international controls in other fields will become far brighter...
...thumbed through the stack of forms. "Bureaucracy," he sighed, "bureaucracy." First there was the Fulbright, a green form to be filled out in quadruplicate: Vag was applying for one to Australia--little competition. Then, of course, there was a white Fulbright to be filled out in triplicate; not a real Fulbright at all, he corrected himself, but a Foreign Government Grant. Vag flipped a dime to determine whether it would be the French or German government that would be honored by his request; Franklin Roosevelt came up on top, and France won. "La douce France," he murmured, "nation de destinee...