Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet embassy in Buenos Aires said it knew of no Russian submarines in the area. Rear Admiral Isaac Rojas, who was Vice President under Provisional President Pedro Aramburu, believes that the submarine was surveying the lonely Patagonian coast, where there are several bays that could be used to shelter big fleets in the event...
...million campaign is $4,075,000, of which $2,600,000 is to be earmarked for a new 16-story residence hall with apartments for married students and faculty families, plus single rooms for unmarried students. But the new housing plan will mean more to Union than mere shelter. Says Board Chairman Benjamin Strong: "The preparation of ministers requires constant and close association of teachers and students. Conversations in the halls, bull sessions in student rooms or faculty apartments, everything that goes on in the Union quadrangle has its place in sharpening the spiritual awareness and broadening the outlook...
...stuck by two fingers (signifying the dual nature of Christ) and other old traditions. Excommunicated, they set up their own church organization to keep track of births and deaths. They married only within their small fold, lived in isolated farm colonies where they produced their own food, clothing and shelter. Their descendants still scorn doctors, and live robustly to old age; they faithfully fast every Wednesday and Friday, shun tobacco, alcohol, coffee...
...compute the effects of wage-price increases, and formulate standards for government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago's Albert E. Rees would also like to see the Government itself put an end to price-boosting devices, e.g., farm price supports, tariffs and import quotas that shelter inefficient domestic producers. Said he: "If the Government is to condemn private enterprise for using rigid prices, it should itself cease being the greatest single source for price rigidity in the economy...
...people to work and, in turn, made their desires possible to fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather and immodesty, when a house is only a shelter, when the thrill is gone out of buying and pride fades out of ownership, we are headed for something worse than a mere depression. We are headed for a whole new kind of economy that none of us are going to enjoy...