Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gripes, most Councillors admit, but they are significant. Councillors insist that Atkinson does not recognize the tremendous pressures brought on legislators. He is too interested in keeping taxes down to fulfill campaign promises. Even worse, he evidently does not realize that he was elected by a coalation--the Cambridge Civic Association. He flaunts this coalition, and Councillors believe that the only way to put him in his proper place is to dangle him on a shoe-string for a while...
Elizabeth civic leaders demanded that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...Seattle, a crowd of 5,000 jammed the Civic Auditorium to hear Candidate Taft at a Lincoln Day banquet. He was so absorbed in his attack on the Truman foreign policy that he almost forgot to include a mention of Lincoln in his speech, but worked in a few lines just before he started speaking...
FORT WORTH, Texas, known both affectionately and derisively as "Cowtown," has a civic monument which, unlike San Antonio's Alamo, Houston's Shamrock and Dallas' Cotton Bowl, can walk & talk at incredible speed. That this monument is made of perishable material causes Fort Worth no immediate concern: Amon Giles Carter, tall, straight-backed and hefty, in his 73rd year shows no signs of erosion. He walks as fast as ever and talks even faster...
...professional oilman. Yet when he got production, as they say in Texas, he got it good, and sold out one chunk of his holdings for $16.5 million. When Fort Worth's largest hotel was in danger of being bought by a Dallas man, Carter fended off the dreadful civic disgrace by taking it over himself. Largely because of his determination to make Fort Worth an aviation center, he became the biggest stockholder in American Airlines...