Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Culling Competition. The expansion has some alley operators worried. With fat profits (often 13% return on investment after taxes and a ten-year amortization of invested capital) have come new alley operators to share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York City, bowling alleys have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population...
...Salem Real Estate Man Harold Schmidt-father of eleven-it was a bonanza. His son Denny, 21, is a Portland senior; Son Keith, 22, and Daughters Victoria Anne, 20, and Margarite May, 18, are entering freshmen. The new plan not only halves their total tuition to $1,320; the four are also paying it themselves by working at outside jobs and starting their own boardinghouse for six Portland coeds...
...Bonanza (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Designed to prove that the shoot-'em-ups are still well-stocked with ammunition, this new one runs on for an hour-in color to boot...
Working Man. The $100,000 Club Cabazon failed to attract the expected bonanza of customers from Palm Springs, and its franchise passed from hand to hand like the Hope diamond, bringing bad luck to everyone who held it. But under the direction of Tallent-appointed Police Chief Robert ("Doc") Morton, an ex-chiropractor, Cabazon quickly won and richly deserved a reputation as the worst speed trap in Southern California. Last year traffic tickets brought in $27,985, while all business license fees returned only $5,817. Explains Morton, who has since broken bitterly with Tallent: "It was all Tallent...
...Your article in the May 25 issue regarding Galveston should have been captioned "V for Vicious" instead of "V for Vice." By stating that Galveston is having a wide-open bonanza in gambling and prostitution and that Galveston is the shame of Texas you are not reporting the facts. Also, you commit a gross injustice against our city by spreading such rot all over creation. There are plenty of cities in Texas and in the nation that make Galveston look like Orphan Annie's doll's house...