Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year family line to head the brewery, does not fear this competition; he thrives on it. Trim (5 ft. 10 in., 164 lbs.), greying, hard as an oaken keg at 56, Gussief Busch operates on a simple formula: "Work hard-love your work." Whether at his baronial suburban home or his main brewery sprawling alongside the Mississippi River in South St. Louis, he spends most of his waking hours selling beer. He rarely talks in a normal voice; he sounds more like a hoarse lion. On his way to appointments, he lopes in a half-walk, half-trot, arms pumping...
...major symphony orchestras try to find pleasant outside work for the musicians during the summer months. Philadelphia seats them in Robin Hood Dell (June 21-July 28), Manhattan in Lewisohn Stadium (June 20-July 30), Boston on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles River (July 5-Aug 20), Chicago in suburban Ravinia Park, Los Angeles in spectacular Hollywood Bowl...
Some of Manhattan's department stores and some of suburban New Jersey's dress shops were getting used to a new kind of invasion last week. Potential customers enter, inspect the dresses and select the models worthy to bear a tag proclaiming them fit for a Roman Catholic girl...
...Texan uses 135 times as much water as his grandfather, and some parts of the state are draining their reserves. Houston, for example, is pumping from wells so fast that the land is actually sinking, from six inches in the business district to more than three feet in suburban Pasadena. Though enough rain falls on Texas every year to cover the entire state to a depth of 30 inches, man uses only a small part of this flood. Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation...
Every water expert knows that there is no quick and simple way to avert the threat of shortages. One proposed remedy is the regional water commission of nonpolitical experts to tackle the problem for an entire valley or watershed; such commissions are in operation in Boston, Los Angeles, suburban Washington. To plug two big leaks, the Government is pressing farmers to replace open irrigation ditches with more efficient concrete pipe, industry to conserve water by re-using supplies...