Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overlooked one significant fact in the otherwise excellent analysis concerning the cold-shoulder treatment accorded to B. & K. by the British-as contrasted to the effusive welcome extended Georgy. It is crystal-clear that Boom Boom Khrushchev vanquished Peep Peep Malenkov in the preliminaries for the fumbling championship of the U.S.S.R. Now, the tag team of Bim & Bom is in training for the finals. Naturally, the British, being the jolly sporting type, are rooting for the underdog to make a comeback...
Every now and then somebody from another part of the country wants to know why Texas cattlemen are in bad shape financially when they made so much money during the war boom. Your April 23 story should give them the answer. Those of us who are sticking this drought out are not looking for shoulders to cry on. Your article does help the rest of the country to know about conditions; it might even help to buck up farmers and ranchers who have had good rains and good crops but are complaining about the plight of agriculture. Maybe some...
...when industry-even rum-making-hardly existed. In 1940, Puerto Rico resolved that it was going to transform itself. Industrialization became a major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation of a government corporation, now called the Economic Development Authority, with a charter to industrialize the island...
Hillbilly Boom. At last count, 121 hillbillies were dancing, singing and strumming on Jubilee, ambitious youngsters were washing dishes, waiting for their chance to howl their way to success, and Springfield had become accustomed to high-heeled guitar players breezing around town in expensive cars. Jubilee executives figure that they will squeeze about $2,500,000 out of country music this year...
...Ways. The job depression is not offset by the boom in symphony work. There is only one orchestra in the country-the Boston Symphony-that could be said to work the year round. Members of other major orchestras can count on 3-8 months' work, and the great majority of secondary groups perform only.a dozen or so times a year. The major symphonies in 1954 paid instrumentalists an average of only...