Word: decentered
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...housing for workers in defense industries. Near the war's end the emergency U. S. Housing Corp. calculated a shortage of adequate shelter for 292.000 workers. Aircraft, steel, other companies reported that they could have increased efficiency, upped production 20% or more, simply by enough decent houses to keep workers from wandering elsewhere...
...ever occur to these Congressmen that a decent rate of pay for the man that does the dying and fighting would indicate the calibre of democracy we are defending...
...only touch of civilization in the school was a plea for tidiness. "Don't leave dead Germans lying in a mess in the middle of a road," advised an instructor. "Give them a decent burial in a ditch and cover up the blood so the next man will not get suspicious...
...that Texas, whose railroad taxes were 50% lower than Colorado's, might well up F. W. & D. C.'s tax bill to the point where the anticipated operations saving would disappear. "You, Mr. Budd," cried Amon Carter, "have cast the die, with utter contempt for fair and decent treatment of both your faithful employes and old customers. We use the word 'old' advisedly...
...length of days?" It is a country of machinery, of the highest approximation of economic justice ever achieved, of medicine, of education, where Indian relics of the Stone Age still lie beside the railroad tracks, and where, in spite of everything, society evolves to create more generous, kindly and decent people. "Has man wandering in this worldly wilderness ever devised a better system than ours for making the desert blossom as the rose...