Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training program provides for a half-year of actual classroom practice in suburban Boston schools as a regular part of the Education School curriculum. The trainees will be paid for their services while they learn...
LORD & TAYLOR moved in on staid Philadelphia this week with all the whistle and whee of a Hollywood premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...
Pushbutton Ticket Vendor. The New York Central has installed "Automaticket," the first self-service ticket vending machine in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. Built by General Register Corp., "Automaticket" has pushbuttons for 60 suburban stations, with the fares listed for each. The purchaser puts coins in a slot, presses the right button, four seconds later gets his tickets and change. If he puts in too little money, a lighted sign warns him to put more...
Telephone rates for all Cambridge service will be raised today, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company has announced. Basic charges for residential unlimited suburban service will be raised 50 cents per month...
Dumas wrote day and night, working with and without collaborators, laughing as the wonderful pages of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before...