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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only member of the big five who bought into G.M. in recent times is Richard King Mellon, 65, Pittsburgh's leading banker, urban renewer, celebrated big game hunter and U.S. Army lieutenant general (ret.). A G.M. director, Mellon owns 240,000 shares, most of which he bought when he diversified his family's investments shortly after World War II. Next to him, with 155,-852 shares that stem from his family's sale of one of Canada's biggest auto manufacturing firms to G.M. in 1918, is R. (for Robert) Samuel McLaughlin of Oshawa, Ont. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Many Happy Returns | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Only a rare and incorrigibly urban heart never stirs with immemorial longings, has never urged its owners to arise and go now to some local Isle of Innisfree, there to plant nine bean rows, keep a bee, and put up summer screens...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: House Beautiful--Search for a Sixpence | 11/12/1964 | See Source »

With such a big urban renewal story going on right outside the window, it did not necessarily take any long-distance perspective on the part of the editors to decide that there was a subject for a cover story. Choosing the city and the individual and the right time was not quite so easy, but the happy choice came to Philadelphia. Edmund Bacon and this week. The major reporting for the cover story was done by a bona fide expert in the field: Gurney Breckenfeld, former managing editor of HOUSE & HOME and co-author of The Human Side of Urban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...feel rather close to the subject of urban renewal, taking considerable pride in the fact that Time Inc. has played a key role in major rehabilitation of an area in the world's greatest city. In 1957, when work started on the new TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas between 50th and 51st Streets, this new extension of Rockefeller Center was in a neighborhood scarred by shabby old buildings dating back to the era of the Sixth Avenue Elevated. During the seven years since then, 16 other major buildings have been completed or started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...MODERN LIVING cover story and eight pages of color photographs show, the story of urban renewal is one that develops over a period of years and spreads all across the country. With a sidelong glance at his front-of-the-book colleagues who were preparing to get out our Election Extra edition this week within hours after the polls close,* Editor Baker said: "Urban renewal is slow news but it is big news, and it might just have more to do with the way we live than the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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