Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom, Boom, Boom. At latitude 39° 12 min. north, longitude 15° 28 min. east, some 30 miles north of Stromboli and less than 360 miles southeast of Elba, the scene of the last Comet crash, a search plane sighted a spreading oil slick. Hours later a U.S. pilot radioed his base: "One after the other, boom, boom, boom, three bodies came up quick...
ELECTRONICS boom in New England is doing much to offset the slump in textile business. Hundreds of electronics firms (44 in Lawrence, Mass, alone) have moved into the area in the last few years, taken over idle mills and provided 85,000 new jobs, almost 60% more than were lost through textile layoffs...
...contestants would freeze up, cry, faint. That seldom happens now. And today's amateurs know a lot more about music; often the oldtimers didn't even know what key they sang in." Other changes: today, there is more pop singing than classical, and TV has brought a boom in pantomimists and interpretive dancers. Oddly, the number of comedy acts is steadily declining. The only thing Wanda Ellis finds depressing about her job is the songs. She explains: "For a while all amateurs were singing Believe; then they were all singing Stranger in Paradise; now it's either...
OUTBOARD motor boom is putting along faster than ever. From October through January, a record 168,000 outboards worth $39 million have been sold by U.S. firms, a unit increase of 39% (51% in dollar figures) over the same period...
...fall back on, just in case CinemaScope should prove to be a lumpy bed. It was headed by Leonard Goldstein (TIME. April 28. 1952), who made millions for Universal-International with low-budget pictures like Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis, the talking mule. Now that the wide-screen boom is, in fact, shaking down to competitive normalcy, Goldstein may be worth his weight in gold...