Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
...heyday, "Lee Hig" was one of the kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...
When the cops hauled Mihajlov away last week, his friends said that they would carry on without him. Their defiance would have earned a bullet 20 years ago in Tito's dictatorial heyday. Tito has mellowed since then, but he still must draw the line somewhere. His plight is that of all post-Stalin Communists: how to satisfy a people's craving for liberty and not be swept away by the rush toward freedom...
Those Good Old Ways. The heyday of Hines was in the 1930s, when from the throne of a white grand piano he led the band at Chicago's Grand Terrace ballroom, which flourished under the partial ownership of Al Capone and cronies. "I couldn't afford to have stars for the band," says Hines, "so I had to make them." He nurtured dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines...
That golden heyday is gone. Though the ponies still run in August, the casinos were shuttered by law in 1950, and the noisome waters of Saratoga's springs - once sipped for everything from dropsy to hangovers - have been washed out by wonder drugs. Yet Saratoga is awakening, to a different kind of tune. It lies in the midst of tfie finest concentration of first-rate music and dance festivals in the U.S., if not the world. In the summer, more and more of the major U.S. symphony orchestras and dance companies are packing their tubas and tutus, fleeing...