Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief in peddling her wares where the customers live. President Shaver, who started as head comparison shopper 29 years ago and rose steadily to Lord & Taylor's top post in 1945, has since boosted the store's sales 62% to more than $50 million. She launched three suburban branches, kept sales of her Fifth Avenue store rising. In West Hartford, as elsewhere, Dorothy Shaver hopes to keep sales booming by catering to "the American woman who wants clothes to be a part of her personality...
Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...
...million) for the five-year reconstruction job. The government would only promise 365 million francs a year, so Cornu turned fund-raiser himself. Soon the money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came in from benefit dances, music festivals, theater performances and house-to-house canvases. Everybody contributed, from the Bank of France (10 million francs) to retiring U.S. Ambassador David...
Chances for continuation of service hinge on the sale of the city-owned parking let in Brattle Square to provide space for a new building but local merchants, are loudly protesting the proposal, claiming that any decrease in parking facilities would drive many of their customers to suburban shopping centers...
...getaways were wonderful-Grandma just seemed to vanish like smoke. But last week, when she tried to heist a bank in suburban Arcadia, her luck failed...