Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in a boom season. Kingman's success is phenomenal. A London exhibition last fall delighted the critics, and a Paris show is planned for the spring. With works in 30-odd American museums and a minimum guarantee from his gallery, Kingman sits on top of the world. Capping his pleasure is the fact that there have been times when the world seemed to be sitting on top of him. The son of a Chinese store owner, he studied painting in Hong Kong, moved to the U.S. at 18, worked as a houseboy, cook and factory hand...
Counting heavily on sharing in the boom, the auto industry last week raised its output to the fastest pace since the record year of 1955. It expected to turn out 176,655 units for the week, 21% of them compact cars. New-car sales for the first ten days in January were up 9% over last year...
...EAST TOURIST BOOM will lure 210,000 tourists to Japan this year (v. 152,000 last year), and 60% of them will be from U.S. Since jet service began to Japan, Pan American Airways' business on route has jumped 50%. This week airline will step up West Coast to Japan jet service from four to seven round trips a week...
...been well trained to take over the top job. In 25 years at N.C.R., he saw sales doubled to $40 million. As boss, Allyn has multiplied them another tenfold. During the war, he took N.C.R. into defense work, but made sure he would be ready for the worldwide boom he saw ahead. With peace, Allyn hurried to Germany to check on N.C.R.'s Berlin plant. It was gone. "The Russians had rolled up our plant like a rug and hauled it behind the Iron Curtain," says Allyn...
...Beat. In Toronto, Ont., University of Toronto Student Ries Karvanque, capitalizing on the beatnik boom, charges $5 for appearing at parties in beatnik garb and letting the guests discuss her, $10 for playing the bongo drums, $15 for reciting beat poetry...