Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thompson, Ben Akillian, and Ralph Robinson will cavort in the outfield this afternoon. Charlie Walsh, whose bat has finally begun to boom, will catch...
These are part & parcel of the Texas story, which TIME'S editors have been telling you about as the Texas boom has developed. Recently, Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Senior Editor for National Affairs, and Robert Elson, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, went to Texas to see for themselves what is going on there. They were taken in tow by William Johnson, head of our Dallas bureau...
Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...
...training facilities. Last week's meeting was called by the Episcopalians' largest divinity school and one of the first in the country, 125-year-old Virginia Theological Seminary. Since the war, it has been swamped by applications for enrollment. Seven other Episcopal theological seminaries report a similar boom in applications...
Though the housing boom was past its peak, the building industry showed some outstanding performers. Johns-Manville Corp. boosted its net 24.9% (from $2.3 million to $2.8), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. 23.4% (from $3.1 million to $3.8), and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 17%. Small Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corp. showed a 171% rise...