Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of Bay Street, the Wall Street of Canada, Trebilcock runs the world's fastest-growing stock exchange. Since 1951, a succession of booms in industrial stocks, base metals, oil and uranium has turned Toronto into a speculator's mecca-and a broker's madhouse. Though the Toronto Exchange has less than half as much floor space (9,000 sq. ft.) and fewer than one-tenth as many members (109) as the giant New York Stock Exchange, 67% more shares were traded there in 1955 than on New York's Big Board. Many days the ticker...
...family moved to suburbia, Shield also packed up, moved his staff and executive offices out of downtown Manhattan to the heart of a shopping center in mushrooming East Paterson, N.J., where he built a glass-and-cut-stone emporium that chain-store experts refer to as "a mecca for supermarket operators." It is not only a thumping success in dollar sales, but it has become a handy proving ground for every new product and promotion idea...
Hayride & Opry. Springfield's claim to hillbilly distinction annoys both Nashville, long the mecca of hillbilly music, and Cincinnati. Cincinnati takes pride in Midwestern Hayride (Wed. 10:30 p.m.), which consists of fancy Dans caterwauling heart-rending laments and pretty cowgirls yodeling morosely as they pluck at guitars. The show turns around Master of Ceremonies Willie Thall, a part-time hillbilly from Chicago, who talks corny on mike, but is a city slicker...
...spending standards, the convention mecca of the world is Manhattan. In 1955 alone, 2,265,000 delegates spent $213 million during 756 conventions. But Manhattan had a problem: the best exhibition hall was Grand Central Palace, a huge, outdated, twelve-story structure, which the Bureau of Internal Revenue took over in 1953. This week, at a cost of $35 million, Manhattan opened a new convention temple: the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority's mammoth Coliseum at Columbus Circle squarely in the center of Manhattan Island. Tied in with three subways, it is easy to reach and has facilities...
world's great cultural mecca. Said...