Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obstacles. Last week, with Mr. Morgenthau in the vacant shoes of Dean Acheson, the new policy was in full swing, but it had obstacles...
...Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
...nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter Jr., 15, son of a Memphis, Tenn. stove manufacturer, and Phelps Newberry Jr., 15, son of a Detroit banker, grandson of onetime Senator and Secretary...
...dear to the heart of President Roosevelt. When he set up the Public Works Administration under Secretary Ickes, a part of its funds was to be used for city housing. To date $46,219,958 has been allotted for that purpose. But bankers with delinquent mortgages and landlords with vacant property have doggedly opposed slum clearance. Last week the Public Works Administration, convinced that it could not "depend upon private enterprise or limited dividend corporations to initiate slum clearance," set up an emergency housing corporation...
Some time ago there was a plan to close up Quincy Street and divert the traffic onto Prescott, by continuing this through to Massachusetts Avenue over a vacant lot. While this would be the ideal solution, it is unlikely that the Cambridge police in their present truculent mood would consent to any such radical change. Fortunately the University itself could do much to remedy the dangerous situation. If it forbade parking along the street, took down the great fence that separates it from the rest of the Yard, and replanted the shrubs so that Fogg and the Union would group...