Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of Business), one startling figure was reported last week from New Jersey's bustling Passaic-Hudson-Bergen county area: its department store sales for the first seven months raced 48% ahead of a year ago. Jersey's bounce showed what happens when shopping centers move into suburban communities. The Passaic-Hudson-Bergen surge is due mostly to two highwayside shopping centers that have been built in the past year, less than a mile apart...
...chances of more such subsidies or tax relief are good. Last week eight U.S. Senators from heavily suburban New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut sent a plea to the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to find a solution to commuter woes, urged "that the Federal Government not preside over the liquidation of vital railroad services." But rather than federal aid or higher fares, the Interstate Commerce Commission believes that more local subsidies for rails are the solution. Says ICC Chairman Howard Freas: "If an urban or interurban commuting service needs subsidizing, it should be by the communities served...
...There'll Be Another." More flesh and a fire bomb's fragments were spotted at a suburban Flint dry-cleaning shop mysteriously burned out the same evening; a passerby said he saw flames in the shop, noticed two men running, heard screams inside. Police decided that Kierdorf was accidentally burned during an arson job, taken home for first aid, finally dumped at the hospital. All this they put to Patient Kierdorf, who had already been told that he had no chance for life. From Kierdorf came a huskily whispered obscenity -no more. A few hours later he died...
...Venturi tapped his ball firmly. Unerringly it rolled across the green, plunked into the cup 65 ft. away. A roar went up from the gallery at the Gleneagles Country Club in suburban Chicago. The putt gave Venturi a birdie 3 for the 69th hole, and an eventual one-stroke victory in the Chicago Open. Pocketing $9,000 in prize money, Venturi added another chapter to golf's big story of 1958: the coming of age of a new group of young golfers who promise to dominate the game for years to come...
...preceded by a private warmup, ranging from gnawing anxiety to panic. During the hours of preparation-which must end in laughter or failure-Paar is probably doing his hardest work. At noon on a recent, typical pre-show day, Jack was prowling his barn-red twelve-room house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. His breakfast had been spoiled by an unfriendly newspaper comment on the previous night's show; now he was worried about the coming performance...