Word: influx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their duty by their midwinter dreams. Airlines were bursting at their seatbelts; hotels were crammed to the rafters. "Any connoisseur of curled lips," reported a Rome correspondent of Variety, "can add to his collection by simply asking a room clerk if there is a vacancy." Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins...
When the Chinese mainland fell to the Communists in 1949, the British crown colony of Hong Kong overnight became the biggest news center in the Far East. To British colonial officials, the influx of newsmen was a nuisance. They gave out as little information as possible about any untoward "incidents." Hong Kong, they felt, was a conspicuous testing ground for the dream of peaceful coexistence, and the fewer inflammatory news stories that got out the better...
Since 1948, a half-billion-dollar influx of heavy industry has drastically changed the economy. Such projects as General Electric's spectacular new factory and the $3,000,000 Stauffer Chemical Co. in Louisville have brought new income and new citizens to the state; in 1952 manufacturing payrolls amounted to $490 million while farm income totaled $394 million...
...Boom? Meanwhile, the Stock Exchange has campaigned hard to sell common stocks just as the supply was being diminished by the influx of such buyers as pension funds and investment trusts, who take the stock off the market. The death of the excess-profits tax, easy money, and the prospect of continued fat dividends as well as lower taxes on them-have also made stocks look like better buys...
...made to endure . . . except by men who came from the Caucasian and Germanic races . . . The men and women of the Confederacy held these traditions and principles in their purity to a much greater extent than the peoples of a number of northern states who had been subjected to the influx of immigration of people of lower standards...