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As suburbs grew, businesses moved into the new areas. Large shopping
centres containing a great kind of stores changed consumer patterns. 67. ______
The number of these centres rose from eight in the end of World War Ⅱ to 68. ______
3,840 in 1960. With easy parking and convenient evening time, customers 69. ______
could avoid city shopping entirely. New highways created a better access to 70. ______
the suburbs and its shops. The Highway Act of 1956 provided $ 26,000
million, the largest public work expenditure in U.S. history, to build more 71. ______
than 64,000 kilometres of federal roads to link together all parts of the
country.
Television, consequently, had a powerful impact on social and 72. ______
economic patterns. Developing in the 1930s, it was not widely marketed until 73. ______
after the war. In 1946 the country had about