Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Profit & Pride. More and more white builders, sensing the demand for decent, moderate-priced Negro housing, have taken the plunge into the suburban market. It has its special hazards; in some areas, white building inspectors and utility companies drag their feet when Negro tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even...
...rest marketable skills. But hundreds of schools are "special." New York City has outright detention camps for delinquents-and it also has the exquisitely superior Bronx High School of Science (TIME, May 5, 1958). Some urban schools teach 90% of their students to be auto mechanics and beauticians. Some suburban schools send 90% of their students to top colleges...
Each has different problems. The mainly vocational school has to teach skills applicable to the local job market. The suburban school has to deal with many a boy not blessed with talents to match his parents' ambitions. Nobody can judge a school's performance without analyzing how well it serves the specific needs of its students...
...Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's poignant prizewinning first play about a Chicago Negro family that yearns to leave the black South Side jungle for a place in the white suburban...
...vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley, together with Grant (now 83 but still active as board chairman), have waged a major campaign to shift Grant out of drab downtown locations into suburban shopping centers. Result: Grant's sales in its 770 stores have jumped to $432 million. The company has never failed to show a profit, never skipped or reduced a dividend...