Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduction is a rather irrevocable step. Once taxes are reduced, it will be difficult to raise them again. Should the present recession prove temporary, we would want to have them back, and fairly promptly. We can't have a deficit in both depression and boom. Life is not yet that wonderful. There are other reasons for favoring public works. Schools and aid to education, research support and facilities, health facilities, urban rental housing, urban redevelopment, resource development, metropolitan communications, are all deficient or lagging. We should first make jobs building the schools...
...work in Washington at $17,500 a year, was Post Office Department financial troubleshooter before he signed up with the Budget Bureau last September. The big job ahead for Maurice Stans: preparing for the budget year beginning July 1959 without knowing whether he can count on boom or bust...
...only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that he fire his luxury-loving Minister of State. When Rainier retorted, "I will accept no limitations of my powers," there, for the moment, the matter rested, and all Monaco went back to listening for the great boom of the cannon on Monte Carlo's Le Rocher-21 rounds for a girl, 101 if the House of Grimaldi gets a male heir, which would doubly insure continued freedom from French income taxes...
...BABY BOOM, read the screamline in Variety. "The teen market ... is due to rise by leaps and bounds starting with 1958 . . . and motion pictures have the potential for a great attendance revival." It was the kind of talk that harried Hollywood likes to hear, and so far 1958 has lived up to expectations...
...museum's standing-room-only symposium: "Gaudi points the way not through a restatement of Gaudi, but by restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect Philip Johnson kicked off in 1932 the boom for the International Style of wrap-around ribbon windows, flat roofs and stripped façades, came close to disowning his own offspring: "Not the least value of studying Gaudi's work is the exhilaration that comes from realizing how vast, how unplumbed, are the possibilities of architecture...