Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be interested in our five-year-old Holy Family Hospital in Qui Nhon. It is staffed by eleven Medical Mission Sisters, among them the only American Catholic Sisters working in Viet Nam. Their services include surgery and obstetrics. A venture, started by a Protestant Army chaplain and his unit with the hospital, has been labeled "Operation Harelip." For the past few months, the men have been bringing Vietnamese children with harelips to the hospital, passing the hat to cover the expenses of corrective surgery performed by Sister M. Virginia Sayers, M.D., of Toledo, Ohio...
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...
...Gypsum's initiative will inspire more big companies to take similar steps, the arithmetic of the project is persuasive. Gypsum's purchase and remodeling of the first building cost only $9,100 per apartment as against $22,500 for a typical new public-housing unit in New York City. When the whole project is completed, the company will sell it to a group of nonprofit organizations led by Chicago's Maremont Foundation, which has arranged for a 90% FHA loan at 3% interest. U.S. Gypsum expects to sell $50,000 of its products into the buildings...
...stopped operations for the moment, the 2nd Division at Quang Ngai is fighting hard and well. Countrywide, the Vietnamese have increased their weekly number of battalion-size operations from 51 in January to 77 in the first week of May. Simultaneously, U.S. forces have mounted more small-unit and battalion-scale operations than ever before-4,077 in the nine-week period from March...
...than $200,000, he tried his hand at investing, succeeded so well that he now sits on the boards of three companies, owns or has interests in an auto agency, a music-publishing house, a ranch, a record-pressing firm, a water utility, a realty company, and a 400-unit apartment house. His biggest killings have been in real estate; he once snapped up 21 acres for $6,250, recently sold them...