Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
...more than 14 words. It was true that the News's new editor liked choppy prose, especially in the lead paragraph. Too long, said Stuffy to a reporter who had proudly tendered an eight-word first paragraph for a story about economic conditions: "Will there be a boom or a bust?" After repeated tries, the reporter boiled it down to one word: "Boom?" This was followed by a second one-word paragraph: "Bust?" The third paragraph was a shade longer: "This is the question." Stuffy loved...
During the postwar years, the consumer's gleeful use of credit for cars, refrigerators and other such big items helped to fuel a prolonged U.S. boom. Now the things that people go into debt for are changing. Housing and car buying loom less important as credit areas; installment buying is expanding much more in such areas as college education and fly-now-pay-later travel plans. Meantime, the Government, whose debt the consumer shares through taxes, is stepping up spending for defense and space...
...Home Over There ("There's gonna be peace one day ), The Holy Bible, Ain't Goin' Study War No More, bending her notes in the manner of the great blues singer Bessie Smith. Occasionally, she stepped away from the microphone to let her big voice boom through the hall without the aid of electronics. When she got to Joshua Fit ae Battle of Jericho, the walls of the auditorium almost came down. Mahalia escaped only by improvising a song: Mahalia's Not Gonna Sing No More...
...center in Korakuen Park, Tokyos equivalent of Yankee Stadium. In Australia, the first year's production of AMF's Sydney Pinspotter factory is already sold out. In all, AMF has installed or on order 2,800 Pinspotters in 17 foreign countries, counts on the nascent global bowling boom to substantially increase its 1960 overseas sales of $22 million. To expand its line of recreational equipment, AMF has bought W. J. Voit Rubber Corp. (tread rubber, scuba gear), Ben Hogan Co. (golfing equipment), and Wen-Mac Corp. (engine-powered toy airplanes...