Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...
...only eight years of collecting will be displayed next month when his top 63 paintings (valued at more than $5,000,000) will go on exhibit for charity at Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery, then will travel in February to Ottawa's National Gallery. Bought after the boom in 19th century French impressionists was well under way, the paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya, Delacroix, Corot and El Greco...
...hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir landscape at a Parke-Bernet auction in Manhattan in 1949. His first major purchase was Renoir's The Two Sisters, for which he paid $53,200 at Paris' famed Cognacq collection sales in 1952 which touched off a boom in Impressionist paintings. He bought his collection's ' most important single work, El Greco's Pieta for $400,000 to celebrate New Year...
FEDERAL BUILDING BOOM is about to start. Government has finally lifted 4% ceiling on interest it will pay to build post offices, federal courthouses and other U.S. Government structures on a ten-to-25-year lease-purchase plan, soon will ask for bids on ten structures from Albuquerque to Abingdon, Va. If bids are encouraging, Government will offer 30 more projects in December...
...every seven U.S. workers-10.3 million in all-is dependent in some way on the auto industry. It consumes 22% of the nation's steel, 13.6% of its nickel, 62% of its rubber for tires alone, 36% of its annual radio production. A boom in autos is a boom for scores of other industries...