Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom has none of the bawdy, big-spending glitter of oilfields of a bygone era. The basin's chief invaders are the drilling crews, who brought their families and live in the trailer cities that dot the crossroads (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Hotel lobbies and restaurants hum with brokers hawking leases and mineral rights, but there is little oldtime roistering...
...within 50 feet of her at the time. In the first trial in recorder's court, Ingram explained that he had mistaken blue-jeaned Willa Jean Boswell for one of her brothers, had started to follow her across a cornfield to ask if he could borrow the family trailer. When she took fright and ran, he turned back to his car. The judge, acting on the basis of a North Carolina law that says assault can be committed even without physical contact, sentenced Ingram to two years in jail (TIME. July 23, 1951). Last November, Ingram's appeal...
Even with trailer parks increasing at the rate of 2,000 a year, space is still tight. And now that they are landlords to more than 1% of the population, park owners think their future is secure in good times...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...ultimate in trailer living will arrive when Paradise on Wheels, Inc. opens near Phoenix, Ariz, next year. This will be a 160-acre park with lots for sale at $795 to $1,000, and a 2,200-ft. shopping and recreation center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright...