Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States should find a mild form of Ovaltine in the fact that our per capita debt is considerably less than half that of the British. Another illuminating observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half of the construction cost is required to give the city-dweller minimum comfort according to the American standard of living...
...Congress the President sent a report of his National Resources Committee with a message urging adoption of its six-year, $5,000,000.000 program of coordinated public works. The Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent...
Dead End-Sidney Kingsley's lively urchins on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic set of an East Side Manhattan slum...
About 3 p. m. came an infernal five minutes which seemed to Madrid citizens like hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns. Six defending pursuit planes were soon diving on the Whites and anti-aircraft guns spat up at them from Madrid, but all got safely away...
...series on the subject, Sheldon Glueck '22, professor of Criminology, will talk in Phillips Brooks House parlor at 8 o'clock tomorrow night on some general aspects of crime. On Thursday, Frank Mabey, president of the Boys Worker division of the United Settlements of Greater Boston, will speak on slum conditions...