Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applaud the economic development work of Rouse & Co. in large American cities as reported in "Cities Are Fun" [Aug. 24]. I want to point out, however, that most developers have not yet considered investing in small cities of under 100,000 population. These centers are the backbone of our country, and need the same influx of investment and development if they are to survive. These communities, like the bigger ones, are faced with eroding tax bases and struggling downtown commercial districts. Yet they have a wealth of architecturally significant buildings. As mayor of a small city, I hope that developers...
Richard Nixon ended the last links between the dollar and gold on Aug. 15, 1971, when he said that the U.S. would no longer exchange American gold for dollars held by foreign central banks. But since that time, inflation and interest rates have reached unimaginable levels, stirring longings for a return to the golden days of yesteryear, when the dollar's value was determined not by man-made policies in Washington but by how much gold it could...
Crisis? What crisis? Farmers in California have long declared that this state has had a case of "Brown rot." It is too bad it took the Medfly [Aug. 31] to show the rest of the country our problem...
...American Scene story on Wall Drug Store in South Dakota [Aug. 31] brought back memories of our then college-student daughter sending home pictures of a main thoroughfare in Amsterdam. Amid the signs in Dutch was one standout in English: ONLY 5,280 MILES TO WALL DRUG, SO. DAKOTA...
...grandson of a Mississippi slave, Wilkins was born Aug. 30, 1901, in St. Louis. His parents were both college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...