Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City. The reclaimers of Flushing dump could be reasonably sure that any exposition erected there would be a delightful improvement on the scene, but San Francisco's exposition builders were far from such a certainty. For the city and harbor of San Francisco constitute one of the great urban beauties of North America. San Francisco Bay is not only vast-48 miles long, embracing 450 square miles of roadstead-but magnificently visible, cupped by the steeply carved mountains of the coast range. San Francisco rises in clean, pale tiers of buildings on the hilly peninsula between this shining water...
...oversupply in the spring and a scarcity in winter, milk prices tend to fluctuate wildly. This, plus the sanitary necessity of supervising milk distribution, has long made some sort of co-operation inevitable between producer and distributor. It usually takes the form of so-called "milksheds" developed around urban centres...
...market for $5-to-$10 a room Housing is 5,000,000 urban families (census...
Suppose the U. S. had had a war scare six weeks ago which necessitated the evacuation of cities, the setting up of anti-aircraft defenses near public buildings, the distribution of millions of gas masks to the urban population. Suppose that six weeks later, with the crisis passed, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring confessed to Congress that the air-raid precautions had been so badly muddled that had war come, countless U. S. citizens would have needlessly been killed. Unquestionably the gravest sort of scandal would have followed...
...Bessie goes back to the days of urban growth and legislation compelling school attendance, that is, to the days that followed the Civil War, and sets the stage for yellow journalism by quoting Whitelaw Reid as saying in 1879: "There is not a newspaper editor in New York who does not know the fortune awaiting the man who is willing to make a daily paper as disreputable and vile as 150,000 readers would be willing to buy." Hence the "New York World," which Mr. Pulitzer founded "because I want to talk to a nation, not a select committee...