Word: boom
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Last week the Down Under boom suffered a temporary setback. When Sinatra returned to Melbourne from Sydney, he found the 8,000-seat stadium burned to the ground, had to move to a smaller (3,000) hall, and Promoter Gordon faced a bleak week. Worse, Brisbane's newspaper Truth quoted Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Arthur Fadden who was "very perturbed" about the influx of profit-hungry American entertainers. "They are like butcherbirds," * said he. "They fly in, pick up the worm and fly away again." Nevertheless, Aussie audiences went on cheering, and when he flies...
...Although the post-World War II baby boom is leveling off, the world's population is still growing by 1.2% each year, according to a new World Health Organization study. Biggest net population increases are mostly in high-mortality, high-birth-rate countries, with some important exceptions: Ceylon, 28.5 per thousand inhabitants, Chile 22.9, Canada 19.2. Lowest increase countries: England and Wales 4.0, West Germany 4.5, Sweden 5.7. Biggest exception to the rule: The Netherlands, with a 14.1 increase and a low 7.7 death rate. (The U.S. had a 15.1 increase and 9.6 death rate...
...whirl through Indiana is part of a three-month campaign in the U.S. to organize a 40-man team for next summer's work in Japan and to raise some $50,000 to pay for it. "During the occupation," he tells his audiences, "there was an abnormal Christianity boom. The Japanese are adaptable and wanted to flatter the Americans, so many pretended to become Christians. They would have their weddings in churches. But the real test was baptism. Few would do it because it was a cultural break with ancestors, and sometimes with inheritance...
Once, its resonant boom filled the Stadium, however, and in time it became almost as much a part of Harvard football as the Crimson teams. During its lifetime, it never missed a varsity game even during the last silent years...
...year, the biggest rise of any country. Helped by the prospect of rearmament and the lifting of extremely heavy taxes on sales of stock held less than a year (new time limit: three months), German stock prices reflected the extent of West Germany's boom. Biggest gainers: Casella Chemicals, up 160% to $112 a share; Erin Bergbau (mining), up 375% to $85; Beteiligungs A. G. Ruhrort (shipping...