Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, pondering what the Republicans might do if Dwight Eisenhower were to say no, wrote: "Now, I am not starting a presidential boom for anybody nor assuming that I could, but obviously it is no good to say there are plenty of Americans who can meet [the necessary] specifications unless you can name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department...
...Washington De Sapio's remarks set the Stevenson-stacked cadre of the Democratic national committee to whistling through a stiff upper lip. Staffers let it be known that they thought De Sapio was hedging his bets so as to have a Harriman boom ready on the chance that Stevenson may decide not to run. Stevenson has already decided to run, and De Sapio should know...
...Boom in the West. Hollywood, the "enemy" movie capital, was having a TV boom, and New York, TV capital of the U.S., was worried. Hollywood actors alone have upped their collective annual income by more than a third, from $29 to $39 million, according to the New York Times'- Jack Gould. Jumping from a one-to a two-industry city, Hollywood is now home territory to about 250 companies which are in the $100-million-a-year business of producing TV films. In 1956, Hollywood will produce more than 3,000 hours of TV entertainment, both live...
...economic boom in the free world has spurred both U.S. exports and imports. Last week the Department of Commerce reported that during IQSS'S first four months U.S. exports were 13% larger than they had been in the same period a year...
...international art world is feeding a bull market of its own, led by the French impressionists and easy-to-take early works by Picasso, Matisse, Dufy and Chagall. The boom got under way soon after World War II, but the event that proved the market's strength, art dealers now agree, was the sale of Department Store Tycoon Gabriel Cognacq's collection on May 14, 1952. Before the day was over the auctioneer had heard closing bids totaling 305 million francs ($871,428), a postwar record. In last month's Paris auctions, the steadily rising market raised...