Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The business boom in Milan...
Only the kiddies, in any case, are likely to sit through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman...
Also in Bed. The most obvious explanation for the boom lies within the structure of the modern hairpiece itself. Where rough edges and crude foundations once made a man's deceit discernible to his snickering friends, the new wigs (made exclusively of imported hair, often from the peasant women of Italy) are fashioned on delicately tinted, skin-colored fabric or fiber-glass base, and are carefully matched in color and texture to the customer's remaining locks. The whole thing is generally affixed to the scalp by a couple of pieces of centrally stationed tape plus a smattering...
...Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell twice as much because of expanded markets, taxes are not an important consideration...
...this expansion that worries the economists. Since 1959, Europe's automakers have already increased their annual capacity about 40% to 4,300,000 cars. There are now five times as many cars for every 100 people in Europe as there were at the start of the postwar boom. The Common Market economists suspect that this means that auto sales in Europe will soon begin to level off, and they predict that if the automakers continue to expand they will find themselves in 1965 with the capacity to produce 6,500,000 vehicles, but only 5,300,000 sales...