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...capital put up by his own company, Lincoln National Bank and Trust and Fort Wayne National Bank, underwritten by the Federal Housing Administration. Next month F. W. H. A. will start buying idle outlying land from tax-ridden owners, paying them $1 a lot and giving them an option to repurchase at any time at the same price. The Authority will set up on the land four-room prefabricated houses which are to cost $900 apiece and rent to Fort Wayne's poor at $2.50 a week. In return for relieving slum conditions, the State makes...
...matter of one more try at it, will you suggest to the owner, P-96, payment of $60 plus one year's subscription, with an option to him personally to buy it back at the end of one year at that price, if his conditions have improved so that he doesn't have to permanently give...
...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...
...this point Hemingway, resuming his job of war correspondent, sailed for Spain. Two days later, with his $1,000 option check in the mail, Parker died. Because no contracts had actually been executed, Parker's heirs had no lien on the script, and it started on its travels all over again. With Hemingway's representative, Captain Rollin Dart-who had met Hemingway in Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week...
...Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts a day per person) and liquor manufacture by local option, after a referendum petitioned by 35% of the voters. Only remaining dry States: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee...