Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd. The police began to take an interest in young Danielsen's movements. They shadowed him from one furtive rendezvous to another, decided he was passing information to Soviet agents. On April 17, they pounced on him as he was talking to a Soviet Embassy underling in a suburban railway station. The arrest was bungled: Danielsen had already passed over his information, and the Russians refused to give it up, claiming diplomatic immunity...
After a wartime stint in the Navy (he came out a lieutenant commander), May was made vice president and secretary of the May Company. Three years ago he became manager of Famous-Barr's $3,000,000 new store in suburban Clayton, and last year the $100,000-a-year general manager of the company's two St. Louis stores. As president of the 24-store, nine-city May chain, Buster will boss an operation that last year had record sales of $417 million. Said father Morton J. May, 67, who is stepping up to chairman: "He likes...
...tide of terror rolled on. Shanghai's Liberation Daily reported the execution of 208 "counter-revolutionaries," who were made to kneel in a suburban lot one afternoon while a firing squad finished them off from the rear. For the first time, as a new service to its readers, the Daily printed the names of the victims...
...Museum of Natural History, ten 16-mm. cameras, including some for underwater and superspeed shots, specially rigged camera trucks and experimental directional microphones newly developed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. After spending some $300,000 on the project, he brought 80,000 feet of color film back to his suburban St. Louis estate...
...thought that Hollywood was dying-or, at least, no one was sure of it, although there was a lot of cocktail-party talk about the death of the movies. But even the most optimistic had come to realize that Hollywood had outlived its Golden Era. In suburban Bel Air and Brentwood there would still be a Cadillac in every garage-but their owners might have to start washing them themselves on weekends...