Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be hard-pressed to find a competent acoustician, heart specialist or surgeon who would find the startle of the sonic boom acceptable to society. Air routes that avoid populated areas and economists who agree with the FAA are equally rare...
...Dazzle & Boom. Last week Conductor Leonard Bernstein led the orchestra in a birthday celebration that was an almost exact copy of the first-night program. But little else was the same. At the birthday concert, the distinguished musicians in the black-tie audience far outnumbered those on the stage (among them: Composer Aaron Copland, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Isaac Stern and retired Tenor Lauritz Melchior). Ticket prices were set as high as $35 (regular concerts currently bring an $8.50 top). The orchestra, which merged in 1928 with the rival New York Symphony and became the Philharmonic-Symphony...
Every 35 minutes, the monster crane with a boom almost as long as a football field plucked a 35-ton concrete box from a waiting truck-trailer and swung it high over the construction site beside the San Antonio River. Ever so delicately, Crane Operator Gene Smith steadied the massive shell against the push of the wind; every gust was countered by radioed adjustments in the pitch of a helicopter tail rotor mounted on the lifting rig. With directional help from a magnetic compass, Smith gently stacked each concrete box atop an identical unit, to which it was sealed with...
...line's ships are built at MØller's Lindoe shipyard near Odense. Of 54 ships launched there in the past ten years, 31 fly the seven-pointed star. But even without the shipping line, the shipbuilding branch would probably be in the black. The boom that followed the closing of the Suez Canal left order books bulging, with some delivery dates as far ahead as 1970. Eleven ships with more than a 2,000,000-ton capacity are on order at Lindoe, including two 240,000-ton tankers for Esso...
...numbers of Harvard applications have remained relatively stable for the past two years. After a jump of 1000, from 5600 to 6600, for the class of 1969, the baby boom leveled off. The number remained about the same for the class of 1970, and rose to 7100 for the present freshman class...