Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile committee chairmen, worried by the press of work to be done, wrestled inconclusively with a welter of major & minor legislation, from service merger and rent control to a list of 25 proposed new holidays (among them: Grandmother's Day, Freedom Day, Shut-ins Day, American Indian Day). A new addition to Congress' agenda: the President's request to extend for a year export controls over 500 scarce commodities...
...emphasized the importance of the situation when he said recently that "nothing is closer to the welfare of the people" and that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...
...rule: "If it moves-salute it; if it doesn't move-pick it up; if you can't pick it up-paint it." His new version for the returned veteran: "If it cries-change it; if it's on wheels-buy it; if it is hollow-rent...
...their public. Posters were put up in Agassiz Hall, and petitions signed which asked permission from Radcliffe authorities for the maintenance of the crew out of student subscriptions. The plan proposed a one-dollar gift from each of a hundred-odd crew adherents, thus assuring enough money to rent a shell from Weld Boat House, and leaving only repairs and "general maintenance" up to the college exchequer...