Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...
...where he lives with his mother and brother in a suburb of Wilmington, Del., Halla has been most impressed by "the stores, the traffic and the friendly people who have been so helpful to me." He hopes to get into a U.S. medical school soon where he can complete his interrupted education. Meanwhile, he has scheduled talks on his experiences abroad and on foreign relations...
...town of Mayfield but insisted that Mayfield become dry. When the citizens objected, he moved the site to the neighboring hamlet of Pale alto, which obligingly passed an anti-liquor law. By moving the local railroad station from Mayfield to Pale Alto, the former was easily reduced to a suburb of the latter. Pale Alto is still a dry town, and a group of bars do a wonderful business just across the town line...
Three years ago Charles J. Gray was out of a job and nearly broke when he began to drive a taxi in a suburb of Flint, Mich. For a while he had some rough going, but now he owns the North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides...
With a big list of backers,* Parton had bought eight community sheets and shopping guides, then merged them into one citywide newspaper with sub-editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton had stretched his financial shoestring too far and too fast. In cash and credit, he had spent $600,000. Said Parton: "Our war chest was too small...