Word: hub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite, but it did reach at least to American farmers. At the time they did most of their shopping at inefficient, local general stores, where they paid high prices and had limited choices. But a growing rail and post office network, with Chicago as the hub, was beginning to turn farmers into a cohesive market. Montgomery Ward had published a catalog for them since the 1870s, but Richard Sears perfected the technique beyond anyone's imagination. Using the expanding rail system that he knew so well and capitalizing on the rapid growth of post-Civil War America, Sears turned...
...Boston Globe, not wishing to be left out of the action, recently finishes a 16-month series on Hub racism, which snags a Pulitzer because it is too massive and sprawling...
...within the Hub's newly affluent corridors of power that change must take place In discouraging the city's residents, be they any ethnic or racial group, from working and living in Boston, the City puts its future in peril...
EXTRA CREDIT: Hub Kittle...
...What saves God's Pocket from flighty sensationalism is its impressive ballast of local color. The fictional neighborhood named in the title is a white, working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise his deceased stepson: "He was a nice youngster. He never broke into nobody's house in the neighborhood...