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South Carolina textile mills and Southern California aerospace plants, both depressed a year ago, added thousands of workers in 1972; in the Seattle area, Boeing hired 7,000. Some city centers began reviving; at year's end ten skyscrapers were being built or planned along Chicago's lakefront, and three new hotels were rising in San Francisco. The market for luxury goods and services began rebounding from a slump, as evidenced by brisk Christmas sales of items as diverse as diamonds and swimming pools. Waiting lists for membership in the fanciest Houston country clubs (initiation fees...
...MIDWEST is picking up in line with, or slightly better than, the national trend. Unemployment in the Chicago area is down to 3.5%. Along the lakefront ten skyscrapers are being built or planned. In the Kansas City area the dollar volume of residential construction during the first three-quarters of this year ran 43% higher than in the equivalent period of 1971. In Des Moines, Charles Duchen, president of the Younkers Bros. department-store group, basks in a 10% third-quarter increase in sales and says: "The outlook is good. The people are in a relaxed mood because Viet...
...retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along our own riverfront area...
...also built up O'Hare Airport and erected convention hall on the Chicago lakefront despite the protests of conservationists. He floated a $113 million bond issue, of which only $20 million we ?? to slum clearance. "But since the civil leade?? downtown merchants, and newspaper editors?? not live in the slums," says Royko, "it was not ?? sort of inequity that would bother them...
...MACK, black, in her late 30s, was left with seven children and went on welfare when her husband abandoned her. Born in Alabama, she had hopes of attending college when she came North; now she lives in a clean, sparsely furnished prefab apartment not far from Chicago's lakefront, and she is an expert on the welfare family's budget. She says...