Word: urbans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasized the importance of the situation when he said recently that "nothing is closer to the welfare of the people" and that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation...
...Urban, a veteran and a graduate of Princeton University, is survived by his wife and a 2 1/2 year old daughter. He entered the Graduate School in February. The family was living at 51 Ellery Street in Cambridge...
...Robert Urban' 32, a graduate student and instructor in Fine Arts, died yesterday in Cambridge City Hospital, following a seizure in a Broadway restaurant early in the afternoon. Doctors attributed the death to a heart attack...
These bills do not nationalize urban or rural land outright. But they finally and firmly assert prior Government interest in all land and its uses, and subordinate all private interest to the Government. Silkin's bill revolutionizes the whole basis of tenure and use of British land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present...
...Orive Alba would be happy if Mexico succeeded only in growing enough to feed herself. But he also holds that opening up new lands will raise the rural standard of life. By providing hydroelectric power, the impressive new dams would also speed up industrialization, thus balancing the ratio of urban to rural population...