Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable burst of civic energy, Chicago tackled its problem in 1952, accomplished almost overnight what many cities plan to spend decades doing. When the parking shortage in downtown Chicago began to pinch retailers, they persuaded the city to order a $50 million emergency program. Beneath a great tract of Grant Park, facing Michigan Avenue's luxury stores, the city built an underground garage with 2,359 spaces (rate: $2.40 for 24 hours). It cost $8,300,000, but business is 20% better than expected, and the garage turned a $96,291 profit for the city in its first...
Riding the Boom. Soon after Hearst died (TIME, Aug. 20, 1951), Marion took notice of the postwar building boom, decided that the time had come to develop her holdings. She hired the law firm of Bautzer, Grant, Youngman & Silbert, thereby got the services of Hollywood Lawyer-Bachelor-About-Town Gregson Bautzer and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. "I do what they tell me," says Marion. "Greg has a great mind for real estate. He's smarter than...
...Grant forms volunteer retrainees into close-knit groups of 20 men who spend all their waking and sleeping hours with the same group. Says Grant: "Group living puts pressure on them. Now each is living with 19 others who have the same outlook. His opportunities to blame someone else are minimized. You give him rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded...
...only goal seemed to be solitude; he had no dates, and even drank to "sit by myself and just drink and think." An I-2 tagged as "emotionally immature, aggressive," Private L. fully expected that he would get into trouble again when he returned to duty. Grant agreed...
Radioman M. was different. He had committed aggravated assault, under the influence of so much alcohol that he could not remember his offense, and therefore could not feel guilty about it. Explained Psychologist Grant's assistant, Virginia Ives: "The alcoholism was only a symptom. M. had an idealistic, religious mother and an alcoholic, atheistic father. In a typical I-4 conflict, M. saw himself wavering between wanting to be like his mother and like his father. In a group therapy session he saw others struggling with similar problems of ideals and behavior. He gained considerable insight into...