Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many programs predictably muddled through bloopers born of the green crews' clumsiness and uncertainty. Boom dollies were knocked over; commercials and credits were run twice, or upside down, or not at all; sound faded away or leaked sudden bursts of studio chatter and laughter. A few shows, regularly broadcast live, were replaced by film substitutes. But most programs-and the strike-rolled on as scheduled...
...ENGINE CHARLIE" WILSON, ex-president of General Motors, will take deep plunge into shipping business because he believes another sea boom is coming. For several million dollars, Oswego Shipping Corp. (75% owned by Wilson and two friends) bought out Marine Transport Lines, which owns or operates 60 ships, controls one of world's biggest fleets of specialized vessels...
...give its free-ranging scientists more challenges (and to hedge its bets on the solid-fuel boom). Thiokol is diversifying into other fields. Last year it edged into electronics by picking up Washington, D.C.'s small National Electronics Laboratories (sales: about $500,000), and last month it bought up Pennsylvania's Hunter-Bristol Corp. (sales: $2,000,000 from electronics, aircraft and missile components, etc.). It has joined with Gallery Chemical Co. (25% owned by Gulf Oil Corp.) to explore boron-based solid fuels...
...Boom Mentality. Novelist Wilson is slick, readable and craftsmanlike. He has again chosen a highly American theme: the intensive pursuit of happiness. But he has recorded his findings without giving himself the satirical elbow room to comment on them. Author Wilson has chided gloomy fellow novelists who write "as if we were back in the Depression years," and his point is well taken. He himself is open to the opposite charge of a boom mentality about the human condition. The pithiest critique of this point of view came from F. Scott Fitzgerald during another boom: "The victor belongs...
...jungles to worthy ends in the laboratories of the world. Shipping 150,000 small brown monkeys annually to 30 countries (80% to the U.S.), India earned $3,000,000 a year in foreign exchange; four big exporters and 5,000 trappers prospered, and many airlines cashed in on the boom by flying out planeloads of monkeys...