Word: usha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thirds of this backlog is for corporate accounts-all the way from $20-50,000 plant additions, to a super store for Tiffany & Co. on the elegant corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. From the U. S. it has $7,800,000 in orders: for USHA's Tasker Street Housing project in Philadelphia, for U. S. Navy's air bases building on the strategic Pacific islands, Hawaii, Midway, Johnston, Palmyra...
...Straus knew this because for nearly two years he has run United States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided...
Nathan Straus's job is sociological. Franklin Roosevelt's immediate reason for expanding it is economic. Giving USHA another $800,000,000 is a big feature of the Great White Rabbit of 1939 whereby business recovery is to be accelerated in time for the 1940 election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial...
Alabama's Representative Joe Starnes drafted a bill some months ago to give PWA another $500,000,000 in fiscal 1940. Since then PWA has been "reorganized," along with WPA, USHA and several other agencies, into a new Federal Works Agency (effective July 1). Not the Starnes bill, but a PWA allotment of similar size out of the money it was going to vote for WPA, was what seemed to be in the subcommittee's mind. Two reasons, besides Mr. Roosevelt's renewed urge to "invest" in public works, guided the subcommittee in this direction: discovery...
...Housing Authority, which has been granted $800,000,000 from Congress for slum clearance since its organization 13 months ago, last week slammed his books shut, announced that the Authority was "broke but happy.'' Although there were only 46 local housing authorities when USHA set up shop, there are now 221 (in 31 States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth of contracts, earmarked $355,919,000 more...