Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearings were scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in Room H on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center. When the students got to Room H, they discovered that four committee members were already inside, and had locked the door...
Upstairs, on the top floor, the Nabokovs' apartment is a warren of small rooms. Directly below is a. room for their son Dmitri, who visits when he can take time from his operatic career in Milan. When he is in residence, the tone-deaf father sings gleefully in the bathroom until Dmitri makes him stop...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany derides "people who build houses with their mouths." "Romney," he says, "has a fixation in his mind that you can turn out houses off a factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...
Opening Up. A considerable overhaul of labor policies molded by the Depression of the '30s is plainly in order. The most urgent need is for the building trades to open ranks and find room for more qualified young men, particularly Negro ghetto dwellers. Toward that end, union hiring halls might be abolished by law and discriminatory apprenticeship requirements sharply reduced. Regional bargaining, such as Ohio contractors have begun, should replace local negotiating...
...increase comes in the same year that tuition is going up $400, raising the total cost of tuition, room and board by 14 per cent--from...