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Since World War II, the boom in U.S. school construction has been so phenomenal that it currently accounts for 20% of all public building. The value of U.S. school buildings has reached about $30 billion-nearly four times the total assets of General Motors. More than half the nation's youngsters will soon be in postwar buildings; yet need still outstrips supply. This month schools across the land are re opening with a shortage of 132,000 classrooms. The need for the next ten years: 607,000 new classrooms at a cost of $25.5 billion. And ten years after...
...Norfolk, the present often meets the past with a loud clang. Daily, the old Southern attitudes clash with the bustle of a boom town. Once just a sleazy, rollicking seaport, Norfolk is now bigger and far busier than Virginia's capital city of Richmond. The U.S. Navy is the most important fact in Norfolk's life (indeed, the U.S. Government provides 40% of Norfolk's payroll)-but many of the city's citizens have never quite got over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown...
...FOOD BOOM grows. Some 61% of U.S. dog population of more than 26 million now eat prepared dog food (the rest consume leftovers...
Less Bother & Bookkeeping. But the bulk of the charter flight boom reflects the growing U.S. passion for seeing new places. The airlines like charter flights because they keep equipment in use during the off season. The flights entail less bother and bookkeeping than regular flights, since an entire plane is chartered for a flat rate (e.g., $22,000 for a DC-7C seating 79) to a group that collects the money from its members, handles the tickets and seating. For the economy-minded traveler, charter flights offer the equivalent of first-class service (meals include hors d'oeuvres, filet...
...land boom threatens to price good housing out of the market despite the fact that "the area actually occupied by all of the cities and villages of the U.S. covers only one-half of 1% of the surface of the country." So warns HOUSE & HOME in its current issue, devoted to a searching critical diagnosis of the causes and consequences of the decade-old U.S. land boom...