Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANHATTAN, written off long ago by city planners as a dying city because of its jammed-in skyscrapers and canyonlike streets, has defied and amazed its critics with a phenomenal postwar building boom. In the short space of seven years, the big city has grown so fast that if all the new buildings were piled up, they would form a man-made mountain more than twice as tall as Mount Everest; Americans could soar 13 miles high in an elevator...
...selling was brisk. Japan is an expense account state: there is a new rich class, with fishtail Cadillacs and matched sets of Spaulding golf clubs. But the average industrial wages are low in Japan ($42 a month), and workers have almost no savings at all. The Korean war boom is spent, though prices are up 59% since 1950. For many urban families, the next paycheck is the only shield against disaster...
WINTER cruises will have their biggest boom this year since the war. Shipowners are adding about 50% to the cruise fleet by transferring some of their vessels from the stormy transatlantic run, expect a record total of 65,000 passengers v. 35,000 last year, most of them headed for the West Indies and South America...
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, the first cartoon to be made in CinemaScope, purports to tell the history of the four main families of musical instruments (brass, woodwind, string and percussion). In style a clean steal from the Bosustow cartoons (which, in turn, borrowed tricks from such modern artists as Paul Klee), Toot takes Disney in one jump from the nursery to the intellectual cocktail party. There are moments-in the musical score especially-when the film does not seem quite sure how to behave...
...example of Republican laxity toward corruption; it died only when the Republican leaders convinced the country that their attitude had changed. Through the 1930s, the U.S. watched a grim pageant of congressional hearings which dug into banking and brokerage practices that had contributed to the excesses of the boom years...