Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin model workers' suburb of Tegelsee a four-room cottage with garden may be purchased by a German workman by paying $12.40 per month for a total of three years. In nearby apartment houses, not especially provided for workers by the Nazi regime, the monthly rent of a four-room flat...
...seems that the same practice goes on in your reportorial staff because for two years now, your tennis reporter has described Forest Hills first as "flat and singularly unarboreal" [TIME, Sept. 14, 1936], and this year as "the otherwise undistinguished New York suburb of Forest Hills" [TIME, Sept...
Like a great prehistoric alligator the City of Chicago suns its giant body along 35 mi. of Lake Michigan's western shore. From the city's fanlike tail to the south, from its huge bulbous head to the north and from many a populous suburb is pumped centreward a seldom ceasing stream of traffic, most of which flows into Chicago's chief north & south artery, Michigan Avenue. In the heart of the city the stream congests & clots, to the extreme unhappiness of all motoring Chicagoans...
...Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, the modest neighborhood of Barnaby is inhabited by citizens whose salaries mostly range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Nonetheless, the substantial red-brick house at 3122 Tennyson N. W., home of R.F.C. Counsel Claude E. Hamilton Jr., with its green shuttered windows and cement walk much like its neighbors, was one evening last week the scene of history in the making. A Diamond Taxi drove up to 3122 Tennyson, and stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With...
...been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than specifically Russian drama. For realistic squalor and decay Renoir copied the 1936 slums of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Paris suburb...