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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions who surged westward to Los Angeles County after World War II, and to the millions who grew up and proliferated there, the California Way of Life was based on two prime elements: a house of their own and a car (or two). To keep pace with the dream, the new houses spread tract by tract, town by new town across the once-shunned dry riverbeds, up the hillsides, into the canyons and even along the fringes of the forbidding brown mountains. One of the farthest reaches of the commuter turned out to be the little colony of Malibu, built...
...were coming, the colonel ordered complete quiet. The tanks came close to the barracks wall, but no one stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw it at the truck. The truck disappeared in one big roar. Then we all threw nitroglycerin bottles and benzine flashes and used machine pistols on the infantry...
...ever known. Just as the nation was once resigned to a depression psychology, the U.S. was now in the heady grip of a prosperity psychology. The great American boom was almost a standard part of U.S. life, no more surprising than the automakers' ads plugging the "two-car family''-a status more and more Americans achieved...
...many of industry's products. Detroit's automakers alone poured $1.7 billion into expansion in 1956, but at year's end were embarrassed by a shortage of 1957 models. Railroads shelled out $1.3 billion for expansion, and were plagued by one of the greatest freight-car shortages in history. Utilities and mining expanded by $6 billion, and were still beset by complaining customers...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...