Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then Wright, suggesting that sketches of the Academy's controversial, spare-ribbed chapel be studied for ten years and then thrown away, lowered a cantilevered boom on his Chicago competition: "When the great art of architecture comes down to this sort of thing-what is the right name for such violation of nature...
...been for the miniature cannon used to boom greetings to passing craft from her family's yacht, Carmelite Janvier might have lived out her days as a typical New Orleans socialite. Her sisters all made their marks as debutantes, and one was selected to be queen of carnival. But one day, when nine-year-old Carmelite was playing on board, the cannon accidentally went off. It destroyed one eye and nearly blinded the other. It also left Carmelite Janvier disfigured for life...
...Atlantic City, some 10,000 delegates assembled for the 48th annual American Baptist Convention, fourth largest of the 26 Baptist groups in the U.S., with 6,000 churches and 1,600,000 members. They noted a building boom of Baptist churches unequaled since pioneer days, with at least half of their present churches carrying on building expansion programs, and $6,500,000 of their $8,000,000 building fund already raised. Unanimously the A.B.C. accepted the proposal of Southern Baptist Convention President Warren to participate with his group, together with the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. (Negro) and the National Baptist...
...steel mills paced the business boom by operating at record levels, the industry's leaders met last week in Manhattan to discuss the outlook for the rest of the year. Things looked good indeed. In May the alltime monthly steel production record of 10,168,000 tons, set in March 1953, was topped. No one expected that the industry as a whole could maintain the current operating rate of an estimated 96.3% of capacity. Some time this summer, operations are expected to dip, possibly as low as 80% to 85% of capacity, then climb back in the fall...
...sudden boom? Cheap labor is part of the answer. Rossen, who plans to spend $4,000,000 on Alexander, another million on publicity, estimates that it would cost him twice as much in England...