Word: boom
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Part of Tucson's music boom traces to the presence of the University of Arizona, with its active interest in music. Another big influence is the orchestra's Budapest-born conductor, Frederic Balazs, 35, who was engaged two seasons ago. Conductor Balazs has organized an exchange concert with Phoenix, children's concerts and a new civic chorus. He has already staged two large-scale choral works. Liszt's monumental Christus and Haydn's Creation. Best of all, Balazs sees to it that there is a modern American composition, e.g., Ulysses Kay's Horizons...
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...
Instead of paper plans, Florida bloomed last week with concrete results. From the white sands of Miami to the piney woods of the northwest panhandle, new industries formed the base of the new kind of boom...
...Crop. Florida's new kind of boom has cast up a new crop of millionaires. One of the top citrus men is Tom Swann, 52, who runs the groves and concentrate plant for Florence Foods, a big growers' cooperative, and also has 1,600 acres in groves of his own. In the state's growing cattle business, the biggest force is Florida's Lykes family, headed by John Wall Lykes (66) and nephew Charles (37). The Lykeses who also own the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., largest shipper under the U.S. flag (54 cargo ships operating...
...boom-and-bust America...