Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late Communiqué. With Big Joe out on the Romany road, frustrated Magistrate Murtagh was forced to content him self with ordering Adams and Lee to pay half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised...
...content with such heresy, Astronomer Woolley went on to pooh-pooh flying saucers: "I was awakened about 3 a.m. by the R.A.F. and asked about an object 3,000 feet due west. I hopped out of bed and had a look. I should have said, 'Take off, boys, it's the Russians,' but I had to tell them it was the planet Mars...
...Summer Long," his most recent play failed on Broadway although the critics and a select audience praised it. He was content to blame himself for the plays inability to "take them from behind their television sets in the Bronx." It just wasn't theatrical enough, Anderson explained, or perhaps, he admitted, failure came from not having a big star and a name director...
...went up twice as fast. But while the demand may drop off slightly next year, the fact is that the U.S. still does not have enough of the kind of houses to suit its well-heeled population. With better jobs than ever before, homeowners are no longer content with their first $10,000 to $15,000 "efficiency" dwellings, now want $20,000 and $30,000 homes. As a result, 1955 saw the growth of "trade-in" housing, where builders operated like auto dealers, swapped new houses...
Just as homeowners in 1955 pushed their living scale up a notch, so U.S. businessmen were no longer content with existing facilities. In their steady drive to produce more, they laid out $28 billion for new plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said...