Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio and TV in recession-racked Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in the past fortnight. Following through, the city's radio stations contributed 10,000 ten-second spots, exhorted Detroiters to "Buy now!" Newspapers ran banners on advertising pages: KEEP DETROIT DYNAMIC-BUY NOW. Everyone pitched in for a civic crusade to buy Detroit-and the auto industry-out of its depression...
Sheboygan has been free of acts of violence attributable to the Kohler strike for the past year and a half. It has good government, law enforcement without fear or favor, progressive civic organizations...
...writer and his company were the first to undertake the rebuilding of the Japanese stainless flatware industry, even though at the time we employed 1,700 workers producing similar products in America. Seldom have I encountered what I consider to be such editorial leadership and civic accomplishment, as well as courage, as was shown by TIME in its March 3 Business section. My congratulations on your broad point of view and your atriotism in thinking of all America and its verseas relationships-rather than a small area of self-interest...
...price seemed well worth the return; many made as much as $70 a month, double the average Japanese wage. Tsubame was soon getting 43% of its revenue from the industry. Last year it finally had enough cash to begin building its first paved road, made plans for other civic improvements...
...Toll. Slim, outspoken* Dick Dilworth, combat veteran of both world wars, Yaleman and longtime political partner of his City Hall predecessor, Joe Clark (who is now a U.S. Senator), has civic, religious and political organizations, as well as an officeful of assistants, looking for the answers to the problem. "The white noose," says Housing Coordinator William Rafsky, "is disadvantageous to everyone. Apart from being morally wrong, segregation takes a tremendous economic toll...