Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expensive? If stereo is in for a boom, the industry is not agreed on when it will happen or how big it will be. Some experts see tapes sweeping disks out of the market in five years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today...
Bull by the Tail. This year Jimmy will make $100,000-a measure of the boom that country music is enjoying throughout much of the U.S. "Country music's like an eating cancer," says Gay. "Once you start with it, you've got a bull by the tail. That music takes over...
...serve the new salts and their sagebrush cousins, marinas have blossomed into a big business. Like the motel boom, the number of U.S. marinas has grown from a mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space...
...boom has grown so fast that many boatmen see a leveling-off period while marinas catch up to the demand. But once the marinas are built, there is no limit to the yachtsman's joy-or the boatbuilders' business...
...enrollment figure will represent an increase of nearly ten percent, Miss Hildebrand revealed. The enrollment last year was 2686. Enrollment figures have risen steadily, she noted, since the end of the World War II veterans boom caused a slump...