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Less Airmail. The company has bought, stripped to its brick walls and wholly refurbished a 62-year-old, 24-unit tenement, then rented three-fourths of the resulting modern apartments to tenants who had lived there before. Workmen are giving the same treatment to another six-story shambles next door, and four more tenements in the block are in line for similar rescue. Rents, of course, have risen. The rent-controlled apartments once brought $20 to $40 a month. After renovation, U.S. Gypsum collects $65 a month for efficiency apartments, $78 for one-bedroom and $85 for two-bedroom units...
...cautioned Biddle, he did not want "a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin's head on the Justice Building." Nonetheless, many of the program's finest murals contained notes of social protest. Even Biddle titled his own fresco for the Justice Building The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow...
...sold MGM seven new songs for the movie Say It with Music, and is toying with some ideas for a Broadway musical, East River, a valedictory valentine to the good old days when he slept on a tenement fire escape and dreamed of getting rich...
...guarantees Gennaro a measure of self-respect. To save it, he turns into a thief and hijacks the contents of a warehouse, but is interrogated and tortured by the police. At last the business collapses; dying old man and desperate young boy are turned out of their tumble-down tenement; Gennaro is stripped of everything-except his roaring Neapolitan zest for life...
...West Side Chicago, where he has been concentrating his crusade since January, Martin Luther King stood outside a slum tenement and pronounced: "I am hereby assuming trusteeship of this building to make life more livable for the tenants." All that the five families in the building had to do was to hand their rent over to King instead of the landlord, the Negro leader explained, and he would use it to renovate the place and turn the balance over to the owner. Conceding that this might be considered "supralegal," King contended: "We aren't dealing with the legality...