Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same meeting, Richard C. Lee, Mayor of New Haven, Conn., deplored the lack of federal participation in housing programs and urban renewal. "The plight of the American city is the greatest domestic issue of the 20th century," he declared...
...sums are tremendous." said the President, "even when compared with the marvelous resiliency and capacity of our economy." And beyond that, with an annual population growth of three million, the U.S. will also have to meet higher costs in federal aid to health, education, water resources development, highway construction, urban renewal programs. He would, he promised, soon convene a committee of educators, businessmen, labor leaders and professional men to make a new study of new "national objectives"-which presumably could be pursued by private as well as Government effort. The common denominator of cold-war defense and domestic growth: fiscal...
...more money spent on schools, roads and houses than the President is willing to spend. They dislike his insistence that inflation is the nation's principal hazard-not because they like inflation but because they want to talk about other things, e.g., reclamation, broader civil rights legislation, urban renewal and power development...
Federal Lending. All Government lending programs, from the Small Business Administration to college housing and urban renewal, are coming under a hard budgetary thumb...
...worker might be more efficient if he got at least eight hours' sleep a night and was fed "decent food." The Central Committee promised a "tidying up, consolidation and expansion" of the rural communes-but then revealingly added that, for the present, communes would not be extended to urban centers because "bourgeois ideology is still prevalent in the cities." Tibet (where Red troops have their hands full with the rebellious Khamba tribesmen) was also exempted from the dubious joys of the people's communes. The Communists now soft-pedal their boast that they have wiped out China...