Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HYRC vice-president. Since the end of June, Moore has spoken nightly from Boston street corners on behalf of the state Republican ticket. He orates from the back of a truck, festooned with a replica of the State House. In his four months of forays into every ethnic neighborhood in the Bosto narea, Moore has used almost all the tricks of the politicians' trade. Here is his technique...
Although Columbia is surrounded by a quiet residential neighborhood, the dirt and hustle of Gotham are but a few blocks removed. But, big as it is, New York has never managed to swallow little Columbia, which has only 2,200 men in the College (and over 25,000 in the University...
...newspaper publisher, Glenn McCarthy operates on the same theory as he does when he is wildcatting for oil: if at first you don't succeed, just pour in another hundred thousand or so. Five years ago, McCarthy bought up the Citizen chain of nine neighborhood throwaways in Houston and put his theory into practice. For some time the going was rough; Citizen bill collectors went knocking on advertisers' doors the day their ads appeared. But McCarthy, undaunted, poured $1,000,000 into his chain, expanded into Houston suburbs as well as south into Texas City and the Freeport...
...real estate (the foundation owns at least one bank and four department stores), the foundation can afford to do quite a bit of last-resorting. But that is only the start of its work. By its alliance with the Board of Education, the foundation has turned the schools into neighborhood centers, given hundreds of teachers a chance to earn extra money, and made Flint more community-conscious than ever before...
...stills have been found in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark and New York. Thomas J. Donovan, vice president of Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc., said at an industry gathering last week that racketeers now build stills that cost from $50,000 to $75,000, peddle their output through Manhattan parking lots, neighborhood candy stores and tenement speakeasies. "Obviously," concluded Donovan, "they aren't doing it simply on speculation. They know they have a ready market to recoup their investment...