The high cost of living in the U.S. States

You've heard it all before. Jackie Robinson, the baseball great whose destiny it was to shatter the colour barrier of Major League baseball, played for the Montreal Royals before doing so. He was, by all accounts, adored in this city, as this quote from WikiTree.com pioneer and New Englander Chris Whitten suggests: "During away tours, (Robinson) had to endure the onslaught of racial hatred and violent fans, but when returning to Montreal the fans welcomed him as their local hero."

Six years later, as a resident of a prosperous New York suburb, this happens:

As published in Jet magazine, 1952.