Word: shelterer
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Luck and ingenuity keep him alive. He stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...
...cost of the housing unit alone to $5,500. Among them: enclosed toilet ($90), shower ($210), hot-water heater ($140), storm windows ($45), refrigerator (about $170), air conditioner (about $250). One model even has a roof that slides out and canvas panels that come down to provide additional shelter...
...Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...
Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...American consumer is not squandering his money frivolously. Of the $2,100 that the average family has left over yearly after meeting basic needs for food, shelter and clothing, more and more is being used to upgrade the quality of housing or medical care and increase outlays for children's education, or is just being held in larger amounts of cash in pocket. Seeking a way to describe the shifting patterns of the consumer, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank recently decided that he has gone through three spending tiers and is now in the midst of a fourth...