Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes to Hawaii. When Sheree refuses to let him live on the air base as "a sort of male camp follower," he decides to aloha the boom. One day she finds him sprawled, like a particularly depraved passage out of Somerset Maugham, in a little grass shack in the banana slums, with not much more than a pith helmet between him and the kind of girl a man likes to have under the palms. She's the cook, he explains. Next day the Mrs. moves the Mr. into Air Force quarters...
...Club began holding sweepstakes on horse races (the Irish Sweepstakes, say Australians, are a pale copy of "Tatts"), became a national pastime between World Wars, when state governments set up lotteries as a means of raising additional revenue (approximately 40% of the take). This year, riding out a prosperity boom, Australians are expected to buy close to a hundred million lottery tickets (variously priced from 30? to $225 each) for an expenditure equal to about $10 for each man, woman and child in the country...
...high-fidelity fans and came back with a roar. With high fidelity's new recording techniques, hazy diapasons became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there are Columbia's fast-selling church-organ recordings with...
...realty firm of Webb & Knapp and a group of well-heeled oilmen are in the process of acquiring 5,000 acres of choice land between Dallas and Fort Worth for $10 million. Their plan: to turn the land into the world's biggest "industrial park," a roaring "prairie boom town" where 100,000 people would work in a $300 million complex of aircraft, electronics, food-processing and packaging plants, with an annual payroll of $500 million. The details and timing were still undecided, said Zeckendorf grandly, but he and his backers had already plunked down $500,000 as down...
...VEGAS BOOM is losing some of its glitter. High entertainment costs (up to $50,000 weekly for a top star) and disappointing business have forced the $5,000,000 Royal Nevada to shut down, the second hotel to fold in three months. One other, the Dunes, reports financial troubles, while three more new hotels abuilding-the Tropicana, Lady Luck and Stardust-are still not finished...