Word: boom
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...going public, Vuitton will be cashing in on a remarkable boom. Sales of its luggage and handbags have surged more than eightfold since 1977, when Henry Racamier, a retired steelmaker whose wife is a member of the Vuitton family, took over as president. At the time, Vuitton had only one factory. Racamier added six more and opened more than 50 new stores in cities ranging from Singapore to Short Hills, N. J. As a result of the exuberant expansion, two-thirds of Vuitton's business now comes from high-fashion bag toters outside France...
...Freer exhibition is a fascinating show, for its context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As Bernard Berenson fanned the ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler...
...Farley, 69, owner of a local taxi company, had considered leaving Indianapolis. He has changed his mind. "This town is on the move," he says. "It's booming, and I ain't goin' nowhere; I'm gonna stay here and boom with...
...centuries. The Indians sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch for some beads, cloth and trinkets, and during World War II Adolf Hitler sent Yugoslavia boxcars of aspirin in return for that country's copper. Low commodity prices and a world credit crunch are causing the back-to-barter boom. In just eight years, countertrade in all its forms has grown from an estimated 2% of world commerce to roughly 33%, according to Business Trend Analysts, a New York consulting firm...
...industry resurgence has meant a boom for the town of Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 41,300). A carriage-building center at the turn of the century, northern Indiana was later home to such automakers as Studebaker and Auburn. Today the defunct car companies have been supplanted by more than 30 camper, trailer and motor-home makers, who accounted for 37% of last year's U.S. production. In the past year, they have hired 4,000 new workers...