Word: boomlet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Axles & Applewood. When Mott arrived in Flint in 1906, the city already was a boomlet auto town. Mott, who had been trained as a mechanical engineer, was president of the Weston-Mott Co., manufacturers of wheels and axles. General Motors bought him out, made him a director and, in the process, the largest single stockholder in the corporation. Mott still owns outright, or controls in trust, another 800,000 or so G.M. shares, controls several banks, ten municipal water companies, four department stores and a sugar company...
...reports from autos, steel and retail sales are bullish. On Wall Street the stock market has come back to within 15 points of its all-time 1961 high of 734.91. The business pickup has been greeted by every name, from the grudging "seasonal upswing" to the barely restrained "boomlet" now used in an advertisement by staid Standard & Poor's. The economy's performance has not yet earned the title of boom-and may never-but no one is willing to minimize how far and how fast it will...
...wake of the golfing boom-now the biggest in the history of the sport-is a burgeoning, popular, profitable boomlet: compact golf...
...Neill and Bertolt Brecht. When off-Broadway's greatly gifted Jose Quintero directed The Iceman Cometh, in May 1956, O'Neill's reputation was dormant. The remarkable six-year run of The Threepenny Opera at the Theater de Lys helped to detonate a Brecht boomlet that is finally exploding on Broadway with the March arrival of Brecht's best play, Mother Courage...
...Party to register as an arm of the Soviet Union. Now under indictment for failing to do so, the party leaders are merrily raking over what Gus Hall calls "this monstrous law," which, he insists, "actually provides for concentration camps." Why do students listen? Hall hopefully attributes the Red boomlet to student interest in hearing what a live Communist actually says as compared with what the new far-rightists say he says. More exactly, U.S. collegians are more curious about everything political-and the Communists are splendid teachers. One University of Minnesota official reported after Ben Davis' appearance: "They...