Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit for new industries. Or he may hear, as he did recently, a report that a certain national corporate giant, deeply involved in atomic-energy development, is looking for a plant site in a town with a university atmosphere. That report sent Collins, an indefatigable salesman of his state boom, off to New York in a hurry...
...Collins has helped give the boom dignity and balance-but not everyone thanks him. This year he was able to get through the legislature an appropriation for a turnpike down the middle of the state, but he lost a more important contest. Although he kept it in session all summer, the legislature refused to approve a plan to reapportion its seats. At present, sparsely populated counties, with 12% of the people, mostly in the north, elect 20 of the 38 ,state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power...
...DESPITE today's boom prices in the market for popular paintings (TIME, Dec. 5), art collecting need not be any more expensive a hobby than photography or sailing. To make that point, the City Art Museum of St. Louis last week was staging a show of 367 art works priced at $4 to $1,200 apiece. Art objects of various neglected periods proved to be even better bargains than contemporary pictures by little-known artists. Sample rates: a bronze reindeer from ancient Persia for $632.50, a 5,000-year-old "female divinity" from Sumer for $103.50, an ancient Egyptian...
CHRISTMAS-CARD BOOM will break all records this year, says the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers, who predict a gross of $175 million on 2 billion cards...
...building boom that has face-lifted mid-Manhattan (16 skyscrapers currently under construction) has bypassed almost completely the Wall Street financial district at the island's tip. Last week the Street, which has financed much of the uptown modernization, turned to do something about its own grimy buildings and dark canyons. Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy announced tentative plans to construct a $75,000,000 downtown Rockefeller Center type of development: a 50-to 60-story Chase Bank headquarters flanked by a broad, tree-lined plaza and a 1,000-car garage...