Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll is to be reckoned with." And Mr. Freed rejoins " ' The Big Beat in American Music' was here one hundred years ago. It will be here a thousand years after we are all gone...
...Submarines. The desert influx got its first big push with World War II. The military services and aircraft industry, seeking space for maneuvers and testing, as well as the desert's clear, dry weather and year-round sunshine, were the first to move out in expansive style. They sank hundreds of wells, established mushrooming service installations: Edwards and George Air Force Bases in the Mojave, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station near Inyokern, the Army's Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases...
...some 24,000 poverty-pressed young men and women emigrated last year from the Republic of Ireland to prosperous, Protestant Great Britain. In the past ten years the Roman Catholic population of Great Britain (now 3,000,000) has increased by more than 750,000, primarily because of the influx of Irish workers. Most of the Irish settle in the big cities of Britain, work hard and long, and live in drab and depressing slum tenements...
Hollywood Sir: Your article may shock Americans, naive and idealistic as they are, but most of your European readers will, I am sure, wonder why you bothered to print it ... I don't doubt that Sweden will have Joe David Brown to thank for an unusually large influx of American tourists this coming summer...
...lookout for widely recognized scholars to accept temporary chairmanships of Committee on General Education. Although not previously considered by the faculty, the new plan will certainly have its advantages-closer affiliation and cooperation between the Committee and the faculty as a whole, as well as a constant influx of new ideas...