Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with more veterans' benefits (already costing some $5 billion a year), greatly expanded "programs to aid urban communities." aid for depressed areas, federal help for schools, a youth conservation corps for the underprivileged, and even federal "incentives" for artists, the platform proposes to implement, on a grand scale, the "Economic Bill of Rights" that Franklin Roosevelt put forward during his 1944 campaign. Among them...
...advocates of more Government spending. "If we are to grow at a maximum rate in America," he said, "we must recognize the continuing need for investment in the public sector-in our public education establishment, in our national transportation system, in the renewal of our run-down urban areas, in the development of our natural and human resources . . . But among our other objectives are freedom and security . . . What best promotes freedom best promotes growth. What best promotes growth best promotes security...
With the shift in state populations came a sweeping decline in urban populations. Most major U.S. cities lost citizens to the suburbs, but none wanted to admit it. San Francisco schoolchildren skipped home carrying little white slips of paper urging parents to "get counted" if they had missed the census. New York City's tabloids carried coupons for uncounted citizens to fill in and mail. Cleve land city fathers dispatched building inspectors to ferret out anyone who might have slipped by the federal census takers...
Progress-in industry, technology and economics-helps explain America's migrations in the past decade. Industries moved West and South, and people flocked after on newly constructed cross-country superhighways. Construction of city expressways cleared away chunks of urban residential areas, made it easier for people to commute. And rising family incomes (up from an average $4,440 in 1950 to more than $6,500 in 1960) enabled more and more U.S. cityfolk to move out to the suburbs (TIME cover, June...
Though suburban wife-swapping stories are the delight of the urban cocktail party, immorality in the suburbs is no more or less prevalent than it is in the cities. But an adventuresome male commuter does have one advantage: he can pursue a clandestine affair easily in the city merely by notifying his suburban wife that he is being kept at the office. One sign of the times is that Private Detective Milton Thompson of suburban Kansas City is also a marriage counselor, has handled 300 marital cases in the past three years. The usual story: "The husband plays...