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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Phoenix, Ariz., in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, stands an ultra-modern $100,000 house made of Moenkopi sandstone that is, by the conservative estimate of its owner, 160 million years old. On the property is a fishpond with a little waterfall. The sound of the waterfall is picked up by a microphone and piped into the house; the owner likes to sleep to its music. In back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which...
...prestige value," wrote Justice Charles Breitel of the state's appellate division, "has a rental value not based on commercially rented space, but on the building's value in promoting the economic interests of an owner. Thus the owner ... is investing in a real estate project that will contribute to the production of income in its principal enterprise." The Appellate Court upheld the Tax Commission's ruling that Seagram should be taxed on an appraisal of $21 million, half again as much as an ordinary building the same size...
...situation by creating their own world. It is a world as time-consuming as that of the white man, containing its own sets of peaks and troughs and daily routines. A fairly ambitious Chestertown white youth, for example, might plan to become a doctor or lawyer or store owner as a way of growing wealthy and serving his community. Young Negroes, similarly ambitious, aspire to the positions of undertaker or hair dresser or caterer. Traditionally no young Negro who has stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense...
...this year toward $2 billion in sales for the first time. There is also a definite tendency for American consumers to "trade up" to more luxurious items and better grades of clothes and appliances; sales of fine jewelry are rising faster than those of costume jewelry. In Atlanta the owner of a finance company that does business throughout the southern states is having remarkable success with his contribution to the credit expansion: dog-buying on time...
Still, everyone behaved well: the trade papers ran cheerful forecasts and chitchat columnists began comparing the Sweet Chariot's society audience to the old Peppermint Lounge gang. Within three weeks of its opening night, the Chariot was so happily crowded that its owner announced plans to open two more Sweet Chariots in Chicago and Los Angeles...