Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsatisfied appetite for news during the strike is reflected by a locust-like attack on anything printed. Newsmagazines, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications sell out within hours of hitting the stands. On a recent Sunday morning at a suburban newsstand, readers lined up in the rain to buy out-of-town papers. They brought folding chairs for the long wait; enterprising teen-agers hawked coffee and doughnuts. When 1,100 copies of the New York Times went on sale, they were snapped up in less than an hour. Five hundred Chicago papers, sold by scalpers at more...
Radio Comics. The St. Louis Argus, a well-established black weekly, has ventured beyond black-oriented coverage and discovered a new audience in white neighborhoods. Circulation has tripled, to 100,000, and ad revenue is up 60%. An eleven-paper chain of suburban weeklies, reporting a threefold increase in ad income, has started to publish twice a week. CBS TV affiliate KMOX has expanded news coverage by 30 minutes at noon. KMOX radio has beefed up its news staff with a dozen out-of-work newsmen and offers Stan Musial reading the comic strips on its a.m. report...
...land rush has set off an inflation that far outstrips price rises on commodities like food, gasoline and steel. Nationwide, the price of land for industrial parks has tripled in a decade. Suburban residential property has been gaining in value by some 8% a year. The average price of the land under a house with a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage is now $5,300, up about 80% since 1963, while the average plot size has shrunk from about 11,000 sq. ft. in 1965 to 7,000 sq. ft. Farm land has almost doubled in value since...
...follow the lead of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., which give abandoned houses free to any body who will fix them up and live in them for a specified number of years. That move could restore huge blighted areas of central cities and accommodate much expected population growth without aggravating suburban sprawl...
Fast-rising land prices also aggravate urban decay, suburban sprawl and even the energy shortage. Real estate developers often "leapfrog" over expensive land close to cities to find cheaper sites farther out; on the outskirts of Phoenix, houses are climbing mountainsides. The less expensive houses in those distant areas lure residents and businesses from the city, reducing the urban tax base. Mass transportation is uneconomical in the far suburbs; so their residents become totally dependent on the auto, increasing the strain on the nation's fuel supplies...