Word: rented
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...seems opulent beside Spain's $342. To determine the precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum is $1,080. The poverty line is $3,130 for an urban family of four, $2,200 for a farm family. Only 30% of America's 32 million poor are nonwhite-but that 30%, mostly...
...Senate floor, the Democratic leadership had to fight desperately to restore the $12 million. They finally eked out a 46-to-45 victory. The Administration resorted to some arduous logrolling, as with "Operation Igloo" involving Alaska Democrat E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, who was craftily withholding his support for rent subsidies. Just as he hoped, Bartlett suddenly received promises that the Administration would arrange loans for Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians living in Alaska's remote Arctic regions-a pet project on which he had hitherto received not a scintilla of White House encouragement. After voting for rent subsidies, Bartlett confessed...
...Klein, a popular man-about-politics, the columnists said he gave Dodd "expensive gifts" and rent-free use of his New York apartment. In exchange, they charged, Dodd delivered
...there." Noting that "Negro Americans comprise 22% of the enlisted men in our Army combat units in Viet Nam-and 22% of those who have lost their lives in battle there," the President declared: "We fall victim to a profound hypocrisy when we say that they cannot buy or rent dwellings among citizens they fight to save...
Johnson's bill would outlaw discrimination on either racial or religious grounds in the "purchase, rental, lease, financing, use and occupancy" of all housing. Violation would not be a criminal offense, but victims of discrimination could seek a court order forcing the owner to rent or sell-and collect up to $500 from him "for humiliation and mental pain...