Word: boom
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...Boom in Russia. In Washington last week. Pastor Adams met with members of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, of which he has been president since last summer, to make plans for his five-year term, and to consider the state of Baptists throughout the world. The picture before the committee was impressive. In Asia there are now close to 650,000 Baptists, in Africa 223,000, in South America 134,000, in Central America and the West Indies almost 100,000. In Europe there are approximately 1,100,000 Baptists, 500,000 of them in Russia, where...
...Market confidence" is a big factor in the current art boom, but as in the stock market, the experts have sometimes been caught with their stocks down. Items: John Singer Sargent's watercolors, worth $20,000 in the '205, today can be picked up for around $1,000. Alphonse de Neu-ville's flagwaving scene from the Franco-Prussian war, The. Last Cartridges, whooped up to $40,000 in gold in 1890, was auctioned off six years...
Next to the phonograph, the piano is the U.S.'s fastest selling musical instrument, and it is doing better than at any time since the big boom days of the '20s. The American Music Conference, which keeps track, said last week that sales so far this year are 20.32% above 1954: at that rate, some 180,000 pianos will be shipped by year's end. About 19 million Americans now play piano. Next most popular instruments: guitar (played by 4,000,000), stringed instruments (3,000,000), woodwinds and brasses (2,000,000 each), ukulele...
...hindered by present federal taxes. Though postwar investment in plants and equipment has soared to alltime records, American Cyanamid Co.'s Economist Ralph E. Burgess pointed out that 80% of the cash is to replace worn-out facilities. And mainly the hope for large capital gains in the boom has kept venture capital flowing steadily, said Harvard University Professor J. Keith Butters. "In a time of depression and investor pessimism" present tax laws might dry up these supplies altogether...
...gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest honky-tonk in Silverlode. a raffish overnight boom town. Across the way lay Adenville, the Godfearing Mormon settlement. Caught between conflicting loyalties. Mama and Papa stayed true to each other, their children, and the best in each other's faith...