Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...
Though it has come on hard times, the Villa Savoye is a landmark-if not a classic beauty-of architecture, ranked by many architectural historians as the modern house second in importance only to Frank Lloyd Wright's low-roofed, deep-shadowed 1909 Robie House in Chicago...
...Astrue won. Housewives, journalists, college professors-he beat them all. He did not miss too many of his tough questions and made the most of his share of the snaps. M.C. Bill Wendell asked him if it was true that Robert Hutchins was once chancellor of the University of Chicago. What are the ingredients of a martini? His opponents went down on such questions as: What city, once known as San Francisco's bedroom, is the third largest city in California? What two states at what dates came into the U.S. before Alaska...
Some 1,800 bankers gathered last week at the annual National Instalment Credit Conference in Chicago searching for new prescriptions to satisfy the U.S. consumer's insatiable craving for credit. During the past decade, personal income has increased 69% to $354 billion, but consumer credit has bolted 201% to $43 billion. New installment loans in January hit an alltime peak of $3.8 billion...
This idea, called revolving credit or check credit, was pioneered by Boston's First National Bank in 1955. Last week its Vice President Harold B. Hassinger told the Chicago meeting that profits from the plan not only run 50% higher than on personal loans, but that it has helped boost personal loan business 40% by popularizing credit. Said Hassinger: "Don't be surprised if this plan does ultimately displace most everything but the open charge account with the grocer and other retail outlets...