Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crab Grass & Taxes. While far too many of the 16 million U.S. Negroes do live in slums-and cannot find the housing they can afford and need-other thousands are blazing a trail in fast-growing Negro suburbia. Blooming on the outskirts of dozens of cities are hundreds of new communities such as Park Terrace: Crestwood Forest (150 homes, $12,000-$60,000) near Atlanta; Lakeview Gardens (614 homes, $9,000-$19,000) near Memphis; Pontchartrain Park (725 homes, $14,30O-$25,-ooo) near New Orleans; Dunbar Estates' Westbury Houses (200 homes, $14,000-$20,000) in Long Island...
...prospering Negro middle class, who all seem to have one thing in common : a fever for good living. Technicians, professional men, teachers, nurses, well-paid factory workers, federal employees-they settle where the air is clean and the schools good, join the P.T.A., buy power lawnmowers, curse the crab grass, endure the rigors of commuting, barbecue their steaks, buy second cars and second TV sets, grumble about taxes...
...mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, an air conditioner, piano, dog, two birds, a 1953 Chrysler, and a Zoysia grass lawn that is the envy of their neighbors. "You know, a lot of Negroes never think too much about their homes and their lawns in the city," says Mrs. Derrick. "But when they come out here, they really put all of themselves into their homes. It lifts them...
Fallen on such hard times, U.S. tennis experts turned to fretting about the uneven bounces produced by the chewed-up grass courts (predicted Kramer: "Some day all of Forest Hills will be cement"), grumbled that the big serve and put-away volley were ruining the game. Few outside the closed clique that governs amateur tennis in the U.S. seemed to care when Fraser walked off with the men's title...
Garden experts suggest applying regular doses of poison and keeping eternal vigilance, or gently pulling crab grass out by the roots. They are putting their hopes in new, specialized chemicals that have been developed to combat the weed. Many a homeowner has found the most comfortable way to beat crab grass is to join it. Says Washington Building Manager Mrs. Adeline Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago...