Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total mower market. Now, more than 100 companies are in the business and power-mower sales are running at $100 million a year, about half the total market. (Among the leaders: Reo Motors, Jacobsen Mfg. Co., Toro Mfg. Corp.) The twofold reason for the boom: 1) suburban population has soared 40% since before the war (v. a 12% rise in the cities) and 2) the cost of hiring someone to cut the grass has climbed so high ($1.50 to $2.25 an hour) that the average power lawnmower, at $150, will almost pay for itself in one summer...
...three-car private diesel train pulled out of suburban Mehlem, five miles south of Bonn, a mixed crowd of Germans and Americans cheered the ruddy-faced American waving from a coach window. John J. McCloy, 57, retiring U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, was on his way home after three long years as proconsul, diplomat and military adviser to the most battered, most divided and most important land in Europe...
Currently, a Texan holds the record for fortitude. Tall and tough, he was in great pain from a broken arm when he walked into the red brick hospital building in suburban Neuilly. The doctor saw that it was not a fresh break, asked why he had not come in sooner. "Oh," said the Texan, "I figured it would knit by itself and wasn't important enough to bother the hospital about...
...Married (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of comic sequel to A Letter to Three Wives, which showed how a rumor of infidelity affected a trio of young suburban matrons. The current picture shows the way five husbands and their wives react to the news that they are not legally married. An absent-minded justice of the peace (Victor Moore) had married them before his commission went legally into effect...
...Foreign Office, the French ambassador canceled the gay show scheduled for Bastille Day this week at the Colón Opera House; four other diplomatic parties were called off. Juan Perón spent most of his time at Eva's bedside in the secluded presidential residence in suburban Olivos...