Word: sprawlingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada sprawls farther east and far ther west than the continental U.S. And to keep the sprawl connected, it depends more than the U.S. on railroad service...
Still, in spite of direct government intervention, not all the sprawl appeared to be reconnected. Before the workers walked out, two federal conciliation boards had recommended an 18% wage increase, 8% of it payable this year and 10% more next year. Summoning Parliament to debate the crisis, Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Liberal government sought legislation that would authorize only the 8% increase. With an eye on Canada's increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire...
...move around in this eye-popping urbanized sprawl, Angelenos depend almost completely on the auto. Fifty-five percent of downtown Los Angeles is given over to cars-in space occupied by freeways, offstreet parking and streets-and nearly 500 miles of freeways snake their way through the city's environs. Los Angeles County now has 3,900,000 autos for a population of 7,000,000, and the number is growing faster than the human population. There is little public transport; less than 8% of Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers...
Irwin was not insulted; he was delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...
Search for Talent. In many ways, the home-town coverage for which it won its prize presents the biggest problems for the Times. With 4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping, interlocking governments, Los Angeles is a city editor's nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program...