Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share one's experiences. You can buy the old but still fabulously valuable Fall 1969 catalog, which sold for $4, for 25c from us in the Union. The latest (Fall 1970) catalog is now also being sold for $3, and contains over 150 huge pages of information on shelter and land use, industry and crafts, communications, play, "nomadics" and learning...
...expensive, sometimes traumatic experience-where to put the chairs, how to arrange the sofas in the conversation area, and what decorating style to choose. A growing number of architect-designers may have found the solution to these troublesome questions: no furniture at all. Man's earliest shelter was a cave with a rock to sit on, and perhaps it gave him more peace of mind than a cluttered room in a contemporary home...
...typical day begins with lobbying at 8 p.m., includes at least one long march, and ends with beer and folksinging until past midnight. The cold weather has not made camping any easier. Without exception, however, the vets have shunned all offers for shelter in Con-gressional offices and private homes...
...Since each of the big corporations still holds sizable Government contracts, there is a chance that all will survive, though some in considerably diminished form. Still, aerospace is a merger-prone industry, and it would not be surprising if Lockheed or some of the industry's larger subcontractors found shelter in some richer corporations. Says William McKee, former Federal Aviation Agency administrator: "The hard truth is that the country really doesn't have a requirement for several major commercial jet builders. The way the market is going, something's got to give...
Pressure from Subsidy. In its zeal to help more families obtain cheap shelter, the Government has become the dominant influence over both the cost and the amount of housing built in the U.S. Last year the production of subsidized units for low-and moderate-income families doubled to 470,000 dwellings. The Administration expects the total to increase to 500,000 this year. Builders are rushing to cash in on the enormous market that they can tap through subsidy programs. Under Section 235 of the 1968 Housing Act, the Government can pay all but 1% of the interest rate...