Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Impose price ceilings on essential cost-of-living items ("food, clothing, fuel and rent") and basic industrial materials. ¶ Ration basic cost-of-living items "as a preparedness measure." ¶ Prevent wage increases ("although I believe there would be few occasions for its use"). ¶ Extend and strengthen rent controls...
...London Conference, there will probably be two Germanys, one working for European stability, one working for Russia. After a while, the four powers may write a treaty, as a sort of coffin for the bones of Germany. They will not, however, need to buy the coffin. They can rent it temporarily, like the coffins in Berlin. Unless the Russians accept, as they probably will not, the year-old U.S. offer of a control treaty over Germany, the bones of contention in Central Europe will remain uncoffined and unquiet...
Declared officially dead with the removal of rent controls last summer, the post-war housing shortage and its accompanying injustices were revived in a most irritating fashion at Harvard this September. A slow turnover of low-cost apartments, brimming Federal projects and the greatest enrollment in college history all combined to produce a large group of homeless and dissatisfied married veterans. In an effort to cope with this situation the Harvard Housing Trust instituted a strict priority system that temporarily placed veterans cut at Fort Devens or at the Hotel Branswick and gradually drew them into preferred quarters near...
...Federal low-cost housing. In an inflationary period the 198 Cambridge and Boston units assigned Harvard represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair that the University sees fit to allow a $10,000 per year faculty member a higher priority than the man for whom the project was intended...
...Hotel Brunswick hold seniority over him, but stand little chance of moving into Jarvis or Andover Courts. The University knows the arrival date of new staff members well in advance and if it feels bound to provide housing for essential faculty, they should be given apartments in a rent bracket other than that assigned to veterans...