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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They drift in, and they drift out," explains William N. Wilson Jr., employment director of the Detroit Urban League. Probably no more than a quarter of the 23,000 men originally hired are still at work; at Chrysler, which hired 12,000, the figure is no better than one in ten. "Maybe 100,000 persons have been working on all 23,000 jobs in the past five months," says Wilson. Chrysler was so shocked by its own record that it has given a local social agency $500,000 to find out what went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Two Halves | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...laborers) that enrich the local economy and help usher in such 20th. century conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able to trade more easily with neighboring villages and get their products out to bigger urban markets. Eventually, Belaunde hopes to relocate almost 1,000,000 peasants from the more heavily populated western regions of Peru to the less populated road areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Regaining a Lost Habit | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Francois C. Vigier, associate professor of City Planning and Urban Design, has been appointed director of the Center for Urban Studies in Harvard's Graduate School of Design...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vigier Named to Head Urban Studies Center | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard Center for Urban Studies provides facilities and financial support for research done in the School of Design...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vigier Named to Head Urban Studies Center | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

...connection with the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, now directed by Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics, which sponsors research into urban policy issues in this country and abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vigier Named to Head Urban Studies Center | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

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