Post-war Planning, No. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Post-war Planning. November 23, December 1, 2, and 7, 1943, January 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27, February 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 23, March 1, and 2, 1944 ... |
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... living and a wide diffusion of the means of reasonable comfort and peace of mind . In short , we must have jobs in abundance . I think it is important for Congress to act soon because I feel that time may not be on our side . I am not ...
... living and a wide diffusion of the means of reasonable comfort and peace of mind . In short , we must have jobs in abundance . I think it is important for Congress to act soon because I feel that time may not be on our side . I am not ...
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... living unless we in some way encourage small business . It seems to me that we have a question before us that is two fold in its nature : That in our post - war planning we must look to our present activities and our present planning ...
... living unless we in some way encourage small business . It seems to me that we have a question before us that is two fold in its nature : That in our post - war planning we must look to our present activities and our present planning ...
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... living conditions too much , and I think that when we try to provide palaces and these comfortable houses and places for the workers to live at a time when we have built 45,000 of them that are now standing empty we should give ...
... living conditions too much , and I think that when we try to provide palaces and these comfortable houses and places for the workers to live at a time when we have built 45,000 of them that are now standing empty we should give ...
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... living , 8 , or 9 , or 10 , in a building with perhaps one door and maybe one or two windows in the building . Such living conditions as that breed bad health conditions , and with those people intermingling with the rest of the ...
... living , 8 , or 9 , or 10 , in a building with perhaps one door and maybe one or two windows in the building . Such living conditions as that breed bad health conditions , and with those people intermingling with the rest of the ...
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... living were improved , the labor turn - over has been small indeed . And if any money has been well spent in connection with the war effort I am satisfied it has been with the housing program , because the lack of housing has been the ...
... living were improved , the labor turn - over has been small indeed . And if any money has been well spent in connection with the war effort I am satisfied it has been with the housing program , because the lack of housing has been the ...
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