Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Industry and commerce are less passive, however, because they have more at stake. A home can easily become a tenement or a rooming house, but factories and stores are not so adaptable to the new conditions. Industrialists see workers forced into often unwelcome patterns, they watch tax rates rising, transportation clogged, and find that archaic land use patterns make physical expansion difficult. But industry, like residents, can move on. The expense is great, but seldom prohibitive if the demand for the product is not lost in the move...
...reason is not hard to find. While people do not like to live in slums, they would rather live in slums than gutters. Tearing down a tenement means displacing families. Eventually they may be able to find and afford a better house, but it is hard to live in a promise. And so, the politicians become representatives of the status...
...speak only when spoken to. Asked for advice, they have given it. Asked to cooperate, they have cooperated, local politicos to the contrary notwithstanding. In any expanded efforts, the University could be even more useful, for its financial and technical resources are tremendous. Whether such help means selling a tenement on Banks Street, or offering expert advice on public health, education, or planning, it could be invaluable...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
According to an investigator for the Sacramento Union named Ching Foo, she ended up starving in a New York tenement. All she had left, before her death, was Ludwig's $20,000 diamond necklace, and she was bilked of that. The book, unfortunately, is written by Author Holdredge in an infatuated period prose. It is all very sad and wonderful in its own ludicrous...