Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Suzy Delair, mentioned earlier, plays Jenny, and does it well. Her singing of "Avec Son Tra-la-la" (Boom!) left nothing to be desired but more. However there are two things about Mile. Delair that some may find disturbing: (1) her face looks as if it were in the early stages of mumps, and (2) she apparently has no hip-bones. Now everyone knows that the heroines of movies should weigh at most 118 pounds, and should try to have as much bone structure evident as health will permit and Harper's Bazaar will sanction. Suzy Delair breaks those...
...industry could not go off in both directions, and still take the public along,* the Federal Communications Commission had to make a hard choice. In a momentous decision (TIME, March 31, 1947), the color process, at present impractical commercially, was sent back to the laboratory, and the black & white boom...
...smoke from the Eisenhower fireworks seemed to be drifting away, and the boom for Justice William 0. Douglas had collapsed. This week, Americans for Democratic Action, the last sizable Democratic bloc outside the South still holding out against Harry Truman, sourly conceded defeat. A.D.A., which had favored both Ike and Douglas, admitted that the President could get the nomination "if he persists [in pursuing it] with the power of his office." In other words, they would be for Truman, but without enthusiasm. When Eleanor Roosevelt, a prominent figure in A.D.A., emerged from a White House chat with the President last...
...Amman. Plump, turbaned little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan was indeed the center of Arab hopes. The danger of defeat, which sent Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this...
...Ahead? The packaging industry, which has to work well in advance of most manufacturers, is inclined to think that the crest of the boom has been reached. In a poll by the American Management Association, 67% of the packagers said they thought a mild recession was not far off. The majority opinion: the recession would start in five to nine months, last six months to a year...