Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOUSING. "Now," he wrote, "is the time to direct the productive capacity of our home-building industry to the great needs of the neglected segments of our population." Many of Johnson's proposals are simply extensions of already existing practice: urban-renewal spending of $1.4 billion over the coming two years, an increase in the maximum mortgage insurable by the FHA (from $25,000 to $30,000), and extension of direct federal-housing loans for the aged...
...examples that often fail to punctuate his points. It jumps with startling hyperbole and flaccid statistics; he says, for example, that there are some 50 million poor in the U.S.,* but admits this may be an exaggeration. Yet when he writes of the poor in the mass -racial minorities, urban workers dispossessed by technology, low income farmers, the aged-his indignation is moving...
Today's catalyst for sex, at least in urban communities, is the office girl, from head buyer to perky file clerk. To many men, the office remains a refuge from home, and to many girls a refuge from the eligible but sometimes dull young men they meet in the outside world. One of the difficulties of the office affair, except for those who relish intrigue for its own sake, is the problem of sheer logistics and security. Semipublic, semipermanent affairs are still not readily condoned-or perhaps even really enjoyed-in the U.S. American men seem to have decided...
...vast, wide-open spaces, the present and the future of Texas almost certainly lie in the quality of life, the industry and creative ideas of its cities. Some 75% of all Texans now live in urban areas; yet most of them retain an affinity with their country cousins...
Galbraith asserted that in spite of general increases in national and personal income, some people remain poor today because they lack necessary mental and physical skills. These people are now located principally in congested urban areas and in the rural Appalachian Plateau running from eastern Pennsylvania to Alabama...