Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Charcoal Aroma. The U.S. is nearly saturated with main lines now, but the rush to build distribution lines continues. The cost: from $100,000 a mile in rural Alabama to $1,000,000 a mile in suburban New York. The oil v. gas competition is also heating up. The oil industry already pipelines directly to such airports as Washington's Dulles, New York's Kennedy and Chicago's O'Hare, where jet fuel demand is heavy; it is also planning lines directly into neighborhood service stations to replace tank trucks, considering community tanks from which...
...given the American treatment. In Brazil, International Packers of Chicago cans and sells feijoada, the country's traditional black bean, rice and pork dish. When Quaker Oats moved into Italy, it found a winning product in precooked two-minute polenta, the cornmeal mush without which no meal in rural northern Italy is complete. Last week in Mexico, where the hot dog is becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist in the foods they eat, they have developed a liking...
...years, a resolute Tennessean named Welby Lee has searched for the hit-run driver who hurtled out of the gloom on a rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...
Then a yellow, 10-h.p. Renault opened Bonnard to rural beauty. He would motor through the countryside, stopping frequently to sketch. He fled Paris for Mediterranean country villas...
...With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the idea succeeds in New York, it may spread to other cities. Indeed, cable TV companies optimistically foresee a system in which television will no longer depend on broadcast alone, but will be sent over a microwave-wire combination everywhere...