Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boom. When music is the offender, the boom-lay, boom-lay boom of the low frequencies is usually all the captive audience next door can hear, because it rumbles much more readily through apartment walls. Says Acoustical Engineer Michael J. Kodaras: "It's like the big waves at the beach-they're much more likely to knock you down than the smaller ones." Low-frequency sounds are also closer to the natural resonance of most wall paneling, hence make walls vibrate more than high frequencies...
...first important railway. Brother Jakob, who had a lease on both the Bourbons and Napoleon III, laid down France's first railways (on which he made a great profit by artificially running up prices of the shares). The British Rothschilds ignored the country's industrial boom, but propped the young government of the U.S. with loans and, in combination with de Rothschild Frères, made loans to Brazil. "Money is the God of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet," sang Heinrich Heine, who marveled at seeing a French borrower tip his hat to the chamber...
...Grande Dame of Paris banks. To keep the books, the young trio brought in machines to replace the old men with scratch pens. They sought out new banking customers as their more conservative fathers never would have done, and launched new companies to share in Europe's postwar boom. When Guy & Co. formed a consortium to explore for oil in the Sahara, the Rothschild name added glamour to the venture, and the entire stock issue was snapped up within hours...
Allying with fun-loving Cousin Edmond, the banking Rothschilds have also got into the tourist boom. They hold the largest single share in a new company that is erecting ski resorts in the Alps, building bungalow villages in Majorca, investigating sites for motels near the new Mont Blanc tunnel. From the U.S.'s Restaurant Associates, Cousin Elie recently bought an interest in France's largest casino, at Divonne-les-Bains. Cousin Edmond himself has poured $5,000,000 into France's plushest Alpine resort at Megève, has large shares in a European travel club...
...Breakfast at Delmonico's--1893" tells of young gentlemen spending lively, idle afternoons in days long since past. Frank Crowninshield, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, considers society from 1888 to the post war age in "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat." Dividing his recollections into the Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed, to be bored." Society eventually relaxed and dinners speeded up from two hours to 55 minutes. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish "injected candour where before she had found cant," and laughter "replaced...