Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would he, for instance, keep most TIME readers from reading your Art section-does he consider that, too, one of the "destructive influences of the cultdre boom...
Scarcely a decade after a war-ravaged Europe seemed hopelessly dependent on U.S. dole, a revitalized Continent is going through the greatest boom in its history, excelling Soviet progress, matching and even competing with U.S. economic power. At a time when the U.N. is in disarray and U.S. policymakers are looking to other institutions and communities for strength, such institutions and such a community are developing in Europe. At a time when so much heed is paid to the "new" nations, with all their bursting little new nationalisms, it is Europe's old nations, relaxing nationalist feuds, which...
...education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence of class barriers and the ingrained suspicions that so characterized the European mentality. One day in Calgary, while looking for a horse and buggy to rent, he came across a stranger hitching...
Another bit of unfinished business consists of cracking down on Europe's notorious net of cartels. For the moment, Europe's continuing boom has provided enough trade for everybody, put the problem of the competition-restraining cartels far down on the priority list. Also, free movement of labor within the Market area is still more theoretical than real. The Community has provided migrant workers with comprehensive social security, but the age-old reluctance of workers to move persists, though Italian workers now provide more than 60% of the Belgian mining industry's labor force. The fact...
Filming the ballroom scene at Tregaron, he barked his guttural directions from the camera boom. "Stop talkink!" he screamed at the milling mob, which included Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop"') Jackson and Washington Hostess Gwen Cafritz. When a waiter looked at the camera, he thumbed him "Oudt! Und keep valkink!" When another smiled, Preminger tossed him oudt too. A magazine photographer got in the way, and Preminger fumed. "But I'm from Look!'' cried the lensman. Stormed the Director: "You LOOK! Get oudt...