Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newport wingding was further evidence that jazz is enjoying its biggest boom in years, with record sales soaring and nightclubs sprouting new jazz acts all over the country. A crowd of 6,000 fans jammed into Newport's dingy old open-air Casino for the first-night concert. There was a clear moon overhead as Oldtimer Eddie Condon, a little ill at ease in all the fresh air, stamped his foot four times and swung into Muskrat Ramble, sweeping along his bang-up Dixieland outfit, including Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, Pianist Ralph Sutton. The music...
What Next? Has the do-it-yourself boom reached its peak? No one thinks so -least of all the do-it-yourselfers. As their skills increase, they see themselves tackling bigger and bigger projects. The man who has put together an 8-ft. pram begins to leaf through plans for an 18-ft. outboard cruiser. The woman who has restuffed and recovered an old chair begins to wonder if she could not make a set of furniture for the dining room. Sales to the shoulder trade are climbing so fast that by 1960 the estimates are that they will...
...Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...
...home and muttered dazedly to his wife: "My lord, the roof has fallen in." In 60 days, $1.5 billion in contracts were canceled, more that 38,000 workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips, set out to see what he could salvage. He hardly looked like...
BIRTHRATE BOOM that started with the war shows no signs of slowing down, and sales of children's clothing are up 10% to 30%, still rising. The nation's under-18 population has gone up to 53.6 million (from 40.3 million in 1940), is expected to reach 62.2 million...