Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn moment after the final curtain. Then it was loud and long, while many people swarmed backstage to stare at Meier. This solid urban success of the Black Hills Players made it appear that in Spearfish, S. D., the U. S. may have acquired its own Oberammergau...
...families who rent urban homes in the U. S., about a third move every year. This week, as the illogically favorite moving day (Oct. 1) for the country's two largest cities (New York and Chicago) approached, thousands of them signed leases, hired vans, packed. Many moved to save money. Most of them found rental levels for the new season either 1) about the same as last year, or 2) definitely lower...
Reason for lower levels-despite growing defense prosperity-was the long-term trend of urban decentralization. A vague spectre to urban real-estate men for years, it became a reality with the 1940 Census figures. Since 1930, while suburbs gained population, most mother cities gained less or none at all (TIME, Sept. 30). Realistic realtors at last concluded that the big cities, relatively speaking, had passed their population peak...
Drifts. Another notable fact in the 1940 Census was the unprecedented drift away from industrial areas and urban centres. Only one big city upped its rate of increase: Washington, D. C., with its swelling Government employe lists. Many cities showed an actual decrease: Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco. Reasons for this urban "flattening out": the depression; a renascence of the old-fashioned U. S. passion to own a home, dig in the earth; the migration of city workers to the suburbs...
...Ortiz had quickly repudiated the conservatives, had lined up with the liberal urban politicians of his nominal Radical opposition. Last July diabetes forced Ortiz into temporary retirement. Ultraconservative Castillo became acting Head of State...