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...scale would not really get under way for months: the effects of the lumber strike, shortages of labor and other materials were still very real. Last week, as winter deepened, the Senate voted unanimously to turn 75,000 units of war housing over to veterans and their families, remodel Government dormitories to house 11,000 more, find room for 14,000 in Army barracks. The University of Washington planned to put up student veterans in portable houses shipped from the Hanford atomic bomb project. In Cleveland, a federal auditor suggested that old B-29s and Liberator bombers be turned into...
When the Walls really let their postwar dreams run unchecked, they plan a trip to England where Joe was born. But they will come back. During the long hot Iowa nights they talk oyer plans to remodel the two-story, four-room house. Two bedrooms will be added on the north side. The present kitchen will be the dining room. A new kitchen will be built where the porch is now, and:-luxury of luxuries-water will be pumped in from the well...
When medical needs in the San Francisco Bay and Vancouver shipbuilding areas got acute, Kaiser rehired Garfield. The doctor's first step was to establish the Permanente Foundation in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Kaiser. The Foundation borrowed $550,000 from banks to remodel and enlarge an old hospital near Richmond (Calif.), whose population had jumped from 23,000 to 127,000. Soon the money began pouring back into the banks at the rate of $50,000 a month-the Garfield plan was raking in 7? a day from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies...
Away with Codfish. Lowell-who preferred being called "Mr." rather than "President"-began at once to remodel Eliot's Harvard. Eliot had built up a distinguished faculty but had let the undergraduate college slump. Under Eliot's famous system of free electives, many Harvard undergraduates chose snap courses, thought any grade higher than C ungentlemanly. Snorted Lowell: "The B.S. degree is a certificate not of a man's mastery of science but of his ignorance of Latin...
...Brazil: with the Free French, for whom one of his sons fought; with many Brazilian Catholics, who could disagree in part but admire him wholly; with Brazil's intelligent Foreign Minister Aranha, who made him a gift of a fine saddle horse; with his neighbors, who helped him remodel his farm on the rolling uplands of Minas Geraes province, and were rewarded by having their names all carved on the cornerstone...