Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Canada-U.S. economic relations: ¶ Rather than increasing to dangerous flood proportions, as some special pleaders claim, the flow of U.S. capital into Canada is actually receding. It was $346 million in 1953, $318 million in 1954, dropped farther in 1955. ¶ Canada's great industrial boom in recent years was neither wholly financed nor owned by U.S. investors. About 85% of the overall expansion was financed by Canadians themselves. Incoming U.S. capital went heavily into oil and mining ventures, where Canadians were unwilling to take the risks. ¶ Capital movements between Canada and the U.S. travel...
...after day! night after night, one sits-amusing oneself as best one can-at a thousand concerts. Every night one hears the same tired instruments making the same tired noises. A cry from the violin, a boom from the drum. For 150 years the only new instruments to be invented are the saxophone, the musical saw, musique concrète and electronic devices. Why? In the United States, of course, there is TV. But what do we French do with our nights...
...brightest prospects for a long-term boom are in central residential systems that provide year-round heating and cooling of houses. Installed cost: $1,000 for a six-room General Electric unit, v. $1,500 in 1952. Last year 130,000 central units were installed in U.S. homes, up 68.5% in one year. This year, central-unit sales are expected to leap another 23% to 160,000 units. Moreover, some 25 million U.S. homeowners who have central heating plants are potential customers for built-in airconditioning...
...wend their way toward libraries instead of rehearsals, and the College's Herculean theatre season at last draws to a thumping close. At this point the stage-struck undergraduate, like the Wall Street speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow goldfish...
...regard to the plans for an actual Harvard theatre, where the only obstacle is that of money, this year's backstage boom can also be instructive. While the University treasury and the people who usually help to fill it would readily finance something that "students really need," they seem hesitant about a theatre. To solve this problem, however, the Administration need only borrow a little of the ingenuity that theatrical undergraduates have been exhibiting all year. The solution is obvious to anyone who has observed the occupants of the Lowell Dining Hall recently; the actors and playgoers do fine...