Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter Domanig is an Austrian immigrant lad who comes to the U.S. at 17, just after World War I. (Author White has already covered his boyhood in a 1944 novel, Morning in Vienna.) Peter bypasses the glitter of New York in the '20s and an easy suburban life with an American foster father, and heads for smoky, industrial Pittsburgh to make his own way. From there on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up. conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop...
...Pittsburgh University law school, came a long-distance call from a highly placed stranger. Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wanted to ask whether Larson could come to Washington "for a talk." Larson, although puzzled, could and did. Last week painters were still working on Larson's newly bought suburban Pittsburgh house, but Larson no longer planned to live there. He had been appointed Under Secretary of Labor...
Merrill Lynch hopes to use its freewheeling brokers to sell securities to suburbanites. Based in Chicago, Boston and Newark, the buses will tour five suburban areas around each city, hang out the Merrill Lynch shingle before supermarkets, factories and commuter stations. Sales men will hand out literature, lecture on the market, show new investors that they can buy stocks as easily as steaks...
...army is not all bad. A native non-com accurately sizes up Gadein and helps him over the rougher spots. His British commanding officer likes him and protects him. But Gadein, in a world run by discipline, is like a giraffe staked out in a suburban garden. Inexorably, he slips down in the military social scale to latrine orderly. Inevitably he is court-martialed on false charges, convicted and sent to a detention center...
...result, some students with unlimited suburban service have never called Boston or any other place for which they could be charged mesage units, but have been getting message unit bills--in addition to their regular charges--for amounts as high...