Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
...Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue, and Queen Mary appeared with every article of her attire, even stockings, in exactly the same color...
...factory and the slum together composed the "non-city," and no authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...cosmopolitan creature is Cimex lectularius, an oval, flattened, mahogany-hued insect without wings and with mouth parts for piercing and sucking. Its principal food is human blood. Slum dwellers are acquainted with Cimex lectularius under a commoner name-bedbug...
...Summer Service Group in New York comes the announcement of a project providing thirty-five hours a week of work in the city's overcrowded, but little publicized districts. "Life in the raw" is what this group offers its workers, an insight into the poverty, ignorance, and superstition which slum areas breed...