Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard of living. For the first time in his life, he cannot buy a house or rent an apartment that fits both his means and his expectations. He moved out of a $400-a-month, eleven-room house in the capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour's commuting time away from Manhattan-but cannot find anything suitable. He is also willing to buy a house. "When I tell real estate agents that I can only...
...from it. These people were growing wealthy, a little, from the space program from the first American on the moon. One or two of them were even making enough money to send their kids to Harvard, had they wanted them to go, had they been able...
...they watched only the first few seconds of the flight, each of them getting their hundred dollars' worth in a hurry, before they drifted back to work. If their breasts swelled, you couldn't see it. But neither did they moan that the space program was stealing food from their mouths, or aiding in the drain of capital from the inner city...
...space race, like heart transplants and war, is good for the encyclopedia business, and these people were in the encyclopedia business. A big selling point of the Collier's Encycpedia these folks sold is that the 24 volume set includes complete schematic diagrams of the moon flight (not to mention Czechoslovakian street fighting photos). So the Colliermen liked the moonshot, the way businessmen were once rumored to like the War, and the Colliermen went out to sell that day with especial eagerness...
Funds would have to come from the property-owners. Payne admitted, in return for which they would receive "in creased rents from the leasing of the new retail space" on the second level. He said he hoped for a "gesture of interest" from the city-possibly financing construction over public rights-of-way, or merely furnishing "legal sympathy" in such matters as zoning...