Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, an officer pounded on the door of a house in suburban Teheran. To the full-bearded, pajama-clad man who answered, he said: "Your time is up. Get ready to move." The man in hiding was Hussein Fatemi, the hated and long sought No. 2 man and Foreign Minister in the Mossadegh regime. Fatemi had been variously reported as torn to pieces by the Teheran mobs last August, or in hiding in Cairo, Berlin, the Iranian hills. Fatemi was hauled off to jail, but on the way he was stabbed superficially by someone in a howling street...
...fighting for a bigger share of the market, Automaker Mason has his work cut out for him. Nash, which made 135,394 cars in1953, has cut production 30%, and the company has had to cut itsdividend. Mason thinks that there is a trend to small cars, for city and suburban driving. If the Metropolitan catches on, he will be in a position to step up production rapidly. However, the car's handicap is its price. The Rambler Deluxe is only $100 more, and Ford and Chevrolet come within $200 of it, f.o.b. Detroit, on their cheapest models. But Mason...
Newsmen sped out ten miles to suburban Helmieh to Naguib's modest, one-story, stucco villa in the center of a sandy, poverty-row street. They found the ex-President incommunicado behind a cordon of wellarmed, closemouthed troops. Even his phone...
...work for Rich's in 1924: "We want to give it new housing, and build it up. We hope to go into other cities which are under-merchandised." What sort of new housing? Said President Richard H. Rich, grandson of the founder: "We intend to build a suburban-type store, with a lot of grass around it and plenty of parking space, all in the middle of the downtown area...
...record, 1953 v. 1940 -shows us 90% more second children per family, 85% more third children, 60% more fourth children and 15% more fifth children . . . We have 65% more children under five years of age and 50% more between five and nine . . ." The combination of bigger families and suburban living, reminded Choyce, has opened up a whole new retail field-the "do-it-yourself" market. "The mother of this large family in suburbia wants her family to dress well. Maybe the upswing in sewing-machine and washing-machine sales indicates that she is doing more of her own work than...