Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outstanding was New York City's Benjamin Franklin High School, a crowded, dilapidated school without playgrounds. Three-quarters of its students are foreign, most of them Italians and Puerto Ricans. Its neighborhood, Manhattan's East Harlem and Nazi-infested Yorkville, is a hotbed of racial strife. Principal Leonard Covello organized courses in intercultural understanding, got his pupils discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents...
...models (see col. 3) were leaving assembly lines at the boom rate of 100,000 cars and trucks a week. Production men strove to keep up with dealers' orders. Dealers' used car stocks, which ended nascent auto booms in 1937 and 1939, were in the healthy neighborhood of 500,000-not too high. It looked like the start of a banner year...
...more blatant, the police more useless than ever. From 1871 to 1894 Chicago had one active patrolman for every 20,000 residents. The Chicago Times in 1877 looked upon the rebuilt city, saw "orgies held there that . . . indicate that ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had phoenixed themselves somewhere in the neighborhood...
...wanted to purge himself completely of the world he knew, the world of 58th Street, with its God, its life, its lies, the frustrations he had known in it, the hates it had welled up in him. . . . Some day he would drive this neighborhood and all his memories of it out of his consciousness with a book...
...this was not gone for good, for-although it did not own its printing plant, or a large inventory of paper-PM still claimed to have substantial noncash assets. But its payroll ran $25,000 a week and its actual operating losses were larger. Its circulation, in the neighborhood of 70,000 newsstand sales and 30,000 copies delivered by mail (presumably trial subscriptions), was still far from the breakeven point...