Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started the bandwagon five years ago by boldly calling Monet's Water Lily panels in Paris' Orangerie "the Sistine Chapel of impressionism." Collector Walter Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel holes during World...
...agencies, from the Veterans Administration to the Small Business Administration, have taken on important financial duties independent of the FRB. As a result, some economists fear that the nation's many credit operations are not well enough controlled or coordinated, could get out of hand, and turn the boom into a disastrous bust...
...Actually, the strongest reason for studying the U.S. financial system in 1957 is that on the whole it is working so well. Despite complaints over tight credit, FRB feels that its controls are leveling off the boom to the point where credit will ease, possibly within the next six months. Thus, instead of the usual pattern of crash investigations and crisis changes, the study could progress at a careful pace, with plenty of time to make any changes needed to strengthen the system for the future...
...Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost...
...reason for the G-man boom is The FBI Story (Random House; $4.95), by Pulitzer Prizewinner Don Whitehead, a 20-year A.P. veteran now Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. No mere puff job, Whitehead's book is a searching, definitive history and, though done with FBI cooperation, takes a well-balanced view of the bureau. To the surprise of Author Whitehead, Random House and newspaper editors, the book turned out to be a runaway bestseller, sold 150,000 copies in five weeks (initial print order: 35,000); last week the publishers planned to print another...