Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House 13 years ago. Aside from Business, his only interest is his family in suburban Glencoe. His pride & joy is his son Jack, who was a Notre Dame halfback...
...Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would be charged for travel anywhere within a given zone. Examples : New York to Albany, $1 ; New York to Chicago, $1. There would also be suburban zones-15? for a single trip, 25? for a round trip...
...passengers provide only 10% of total U. S. train revenue, most Eastern roads get an abnormal share of their revenue from passengers (the New Haven gets 36%). For them, the success of postalized fares would probably depend on whether the bargain rates for commuters inspired an exodus to the "suburban zones...
Harry Kunin wears a gardenia, its stem in a phial of water. Daily he commutes between Chicago and suburban Highland Park, where he has a landscaped "farm" complete with boat landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest...
...fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...