Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correctly foreseeing that the U.S. faces a decade of sharply increasing demands for shelter, many big corporations are devising cost-cutting ways to snare a share of the market. Urban Systems Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric, is building a project of 100 town houses in Montgomery County, Md. Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis...
Coperthwaite sees his interest in yurts as a natural outgrowth of his desire to develop low-cost housing and his belief that people should learn to work with their hands. "People don't usually get the pleasure of making their own food, clothing, and shelter," he said. "People who are going out to teach kids, especially, should develop their own hand skills so they can encourage the kids," he added...
...congregation has failed to find a new underwriter. Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of New York dropped $256,000 worth of policies on the Unitarian Church of the Mediator in Providence, R.I., after the company learned that the congregation intended to offer sanctuary to draft resisters (it did, in fact, shelter two in June...
...resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation. As a man in the service of God, he could have faced the young Marine and said, "We share your troubled conscience. We, too, are looking for answers. You are welcome in our community, and we will give you food and shelter...
...initial problem facing a former priest is finding a job. For some, this task is still a very difficult one. Stripped of the comforting shelter of parish life, the secularized cleric is transferred, in the words of one ex-priest, from "total security to total insecurity." Many have no means of support. Others have too willingly settled for the first menial job that comes along. Their training, often exclusively in theology, is not exactly a marketable commodity...