Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York the drought has more serious implications since more water is consumed and there is a lack of reservoir space. However, Bryan is optimistic about the situation everywhere...
Bryan pointed out that in normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by talk of a huge water shortage. Bryan believes that though there is a definite shortage at this time, it is not as pressing as would appear. Winter and spring precipitation should, he says, replenish the low supply...
...York papers devoted much space to the shortage in their city. There is supposedly only a 60-day supply lef in the reservoirs. This means that these reservoirs are depleted to only 37 percent of their full capacity and that the city is in danger of finding itself short of water for the winter...
...Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space. Most refugees are herded into dirty, former Nazi camps, like the one at Dortmund which townspeople ironically call "Sing Sing...
...kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space in 325 papers in 216 cities to test the merits of nation-wide newspaper advertising campaigns...