Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the exhibition was held at all is largely due to the interest of French intellectuals who have touched off a European comic-strip boom. Today, Resnais told Andriola, early Charlie Chan strips fetch about $50 each, and original proofs are worth much more. Swallowing hard, Andriola replied that he had recently thrown away all his Charlie Chan proofs: "Resnais looked at me as though I had destroyed the Mona Lisa...
...Hell, no.' " Softer-spoken North Dakotan Haider, a Stanford graduate ('27) in chemical engineering, is a research and exploration expert; among other Jersey jobs, he brought in Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 in Alberta, the find that started western Canada's oil boom in 1947. Despite their different backgrounds, Haider (whose salary will soon match Rathbone's $293,000) will run giant Jersey in much the same fashion as Rathbone. His chief responsibility will be chairing the daily executive committee meetings and weekly gatherings of the tightlipped, 15-man inside board and shaping broad...
Every golfer knows that when he gets to heaven he will boom his way around St. Peter's Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 18 magnificently perfect strokes. While he's waiting, though, he'll happily settle for a little bit of heaven on earth: a hole...
...critics and audiences. For while Tippett ranks second only to his friend Benjamin Britten as England's most notable living composer, his music has not been widely played hitherto, chiefly because its polyphonic complexities and juggled rhythmic patterns scare off most performers. Now, thanks to the birthday boom, performances of Tippett's music are finally winning the popular recognition that conservative Britons have long denied...
...country's population, and the press is confronted with a chronic and growing shortage of young carriers. To compound the problem, the newsboys, less than satisfied with an average take of $13 a month, have been steadily defecting for better pay elsewhere in the country's boom economy...