Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austin ("The only car that will run 40 miles on a gallon") presented only one new model, the Suburban Coupe. Capacity: two adults, two children...
...morning last week before most Washingtonians had finished breakfast, towering Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., marched briskly up the front steps of "Woodley," suburban home of Secretary of State Stimson. He was promptly ushered into the study. After brief greetings Sir Ronald handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts- a note, he estimated, "about as long as the Pickwick Papers." In triple-spaced typewriting it covered 26 foolscaps, on the first of which was embossed...
...branches of the Mitsui are tied up with General Electric, the House of Mitsubishi's with Westinghouse. Nearly 11,500,000 Japanese homes are wired, each having an average of about three bulbs. All big cities have electric street cars and large sections of the railways, particularly the suburban lines around Tokyo and on steep mountain gradients, are electrified...
...Almost all the failures early this year of small suburban banks around Chicago could have been avoided if it had not been for the fact that the Illinois statutes permit no branch banking. It was quite impossible under the law for the large Chicago banks to attempt to serve the important suburbs. The lesson must be glaringly obvious to the whole country...
...last week, extracted a bulky sheaf of papers, handed it almost furtively to a trusted employe. If the bundle had contained gold Publisher Hecht would not have guarded it more zealously. It was a list of 50,000 mothers of pupils in more than 200 private and suburban schools in the New York metropolitan area. To those mothers Publisher Hecht sent the first monthly issue of his Metropolitan Mothers' Guide...