Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses, etc.-the minority in city or suburban practice who concentrate on small animals and birds reap a disproportionate 50% of the vets' annual take (about $330 million...
...kind of retreat she was talking about-a program full of organized "activities"-would not have been recognizable to most U.S. Christians of a generation ago. But her Glenview Community Church, and the faith it fosters, is symptomatic of a kind of Protestantism that is burgeoning in the suburban nondenominational churches all over the U.S. The International Council of Community Churches now has 217 members, estimates that there are at least more than 1,500 other community churches in the U.S.-many of them, like Glenview, dedicated to the new-time religion...
Omnibus: Prettied up for the color cameras and invited by NBC to take George Gobel's place on Tuesday night, this good grey lady did not quite know what to do with herself. Touted as a "hilarious report on the suburbs," Suburban Revue got about as far out of Manhattan as Central Park. Host Alistair Cooke showed up in skimmer, foulard scarf and blazer, to talk about the wonders of aluminum (spelled A-1-u-m-i-n-i-u-m, Ltd.). Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed...
...furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
...game indigenous to suburban life...