Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them-two fiddlers, a violist and a cellist-is in sole charge of a part that would be played by a whole section in an orchestra. But string-quartet music, limited to small halls, has a reputation as "difficult" listening. It has none of the sensational blare and boom of a symphony, its finely-spun lines are pared to essentials, requiring the listener's intense concentration; also, it lacks a conductor, whose dramatics an audience can follow. Today, the way for a quartet to establish a name is to play, of all things, modern music. Reason: it brings almost...
...greatest year in history. Yet many Americans hardly seemed to notice the amazing performance of the mightiest economy mankind had ever known. Just as the nation was once resigned to a depression psychology, the U.S. was now in the heady grip of a prosperity psychology. The great American boom was almost a standard part of U.S. life, no more surprising than the automakers' ads plugging the "two-car family''-a status more and more Americans achieved...
Only when measured against the production and consumption of the rest of the world was the size of the boom clearly apparent. In 1956, with barely 6½& of the world's population, the U.S. produced-and rapidly consumed-60% of the world's goods. The U.S. spent more on highways alone than the entire value of Norway's economy; its new homes were worth more than the entire economy of Spain, its new cars more than the combined economies of Mexico, Denmark and Australia. Surveying their bounty, Americans could say with President Thomas Coulter of Chicago...
...Federal Reserve's credit policy responsible for muffling the housing boom? Said Martin: additional home-building credit will not create more houses, but would increase the demand for already scarce labor and materials and therefore drive up prices...
Manhattan's building boom will add another skyscraper on fast-reviving Avenue of the Americas (TIME, Dec. 10). Rockefeller Center, Inc. and TIME Inc. last week announced plans for a new 47-story, $70 million TIME and LIFE Building to occupy the entire west side of the avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, opposite Radio City Music Hall. When the 550-ft., air-conditioned building is finished in two years, TIME Inc. will take over 20 lower floors; the remaining 27 floors will be rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell...