Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rapid suburban growth, more automobiles, choked traffic, inadequate parking, and poor public transit have finally forced the retailer to switch his tactics to catch up with the people...
...planners into the future have been all too few. No branch department store has yet proved too large. The retail world is already full of men who have built too small. Sentiment runs today that 150,000 feet is the absolute minimum for a full-line suburban department store, and some go as high as demanding 300,000 feet to do the right...
...sales in January of this year showed a 4.9% jump over a year ago, v. a rise of only 1.7% for all Detroit retailing. Long famed for conservatism (it always refers to cocktail dresses as "after 5 frocks"), Hudson's is nevertheless moving with the trend towards suburban stores-and its sales should keep rising. Next year, it is opening a $20 million shopping center a mile outside the city limits. Under construction on a 400-acre site, it will have a theater, baby-sitting services, parking space for 6,000 cars and-just to keep Hudson...
...world, exploiting some 14 million prisoners; also bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial or merciless. Married two children lives in a suburban dacha, commutes to work in a black bulletproof Packard that looks like a hearse. An oldtime buddy of Malenkov. Travel beyond the Iron Curtain: none...
...Atlantic City, ten harassed drivers who operate the six special school buses in the northwestern suburban area decided they'd had enough, announced that they hoped never again to have to drive a carload of schoolkids. Their union thought they had valid reasons for their strike. Among them: two boys had threatened to slash one driver with switch-knives unless he drove them directly to their destination; a group of girls had stripped another girl and thrown her panties into the street; students had a habit of hanging smaller kids out windows, of slashing cushions, unscrewing seats, pulling emergency...