Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen years ago, Schwann's LP catalogue listed 489 classical titles offered by eleven recording companies. Today there are some 14,000 classical titles available from 118 companies, which are spinning out 300 or more new releases each month. In the avalanche, touched off in part by the boom of stereo, close to 6,000 classical LPs have been discontinued and swept into oblivion in the past four years...
Unexpected Boom. The American occupation triggered the modernization of Japan's steelmaking. Occupation planners declared the steel industry essential, thus enabling it to progress from a complete halt in production on V-J day to an output of 6,000,000 tons by 1951, when the peace treaty was signed. At the same time, the old government monopoly, Japan Steel & Iron Co., was broken up into Yawata Iron & Steel Co. and Fuji Iron & Steel Co., currently Japan's two largest producers. Encouraged by the authorities, competition flourished; today Japan has 62 steelmakers. But 55% of production is still...
Profound Change? Some educators, such as Columbia Teachers College Professor Miriam Goldberg, think the Montessori boom will collapse, just as it did early in the century when John Dewey's brand of progressive education won out. On the other hand, others are just as sure that the current Montessori revival, coinciding with national concern for preschool education in general and for slum kids in particular, will profoundly change U.S. education...
...height of the collecting boom, dealers advised clients to sell their Rembrandts and buy posters. Paris was so plastered with posters that the National Assembly felt forced to pass the famed "Défense d'afficher loi du 29 juillet 1881." But after World War I, posters fell off sadly in artistic repute and popularity. Nowadays the posters on the walls of Paris are scarcely more remarkable than the signs prohibiting them...
...Orioles sur prise anyone. After all, it is a simple matter of psychology. "Some guys respond only when you crack down on them," he says. "Others you might have to pat on the tail. Still others do best if you first give them some bull and then lower the boom...