Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holloran contended that most cities, such as Boston, have kept in line with the modern architectural trend by changing or waiving their building regulations. One member of the board remarked in agreement that before the Hotel Commander was built, the code specified ceilings eight and a half feet high. "I have been lowering ceilings for 30 years," he stated...
...blending jalopy jargon with nuts-and-bolts advice, Hollywood Publisher Robert Petersen has not only rolled his Hot Rod magazine to high success in nine years, but has added five other automobile monthlies (Motor Trend, Motor Life, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Custom Cars) to his garage. At 31, Pete Petersen is the biggest magazine owner west of the Rockies, boasts the biggest circulation (total: 1,500,000) in the automotive field, and, with a book-publishing business and a nonmechanical magazine called Teen, grosses $6,500,000 a year...
...become a residential hotel for the aged (part of a six-state, 13-hotel chain for old people). One of the specifications of a projected home in Atlanta is that it be readily accessible to downtown shops, services and entertainment. The new installations are part of a major, countrywide trend in geriatrics: putting the aged downtown near the bright lights...
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. To reverse the trend in New Jersey, Forbes quickly discovered he needed both friends and an issue. To gain friends, he revved himself up into an Estes Kefauver of suburbia. He has climbed aboard Manhattan-bound ferryboats to shake hands, waded into lakes, scoured supermarkets, logged 6,000 miles on the converted milk truck. Along with this "Operation Doorbell" went "Operation Coffee Cup." By the hundreds, New Jersey women are sitting down to sip coffee from Forbes-decorated cups, dab at their lips with paper napkins imprinted with a Forbes family cooky recipe, listen to a tape...
Those who were most offended by the trend in Ghana were not British ex-colonial types, who might be expected to say I-told-you-so, but liberals and leftists. One of them, Socialist M.P. Fenner Brockway, an honor guest at Ghana's independence celebrations, last week let out an anguished cry of betrayal: "What evil genius has gained the ear of the Prime Minister of Ghana? His friends in Britain are shocked to find Ghana adopting some of the worst practices of colonial rule. This is not Kwame Nkrumah. I beg him to free himself of his advisers...