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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water's edge is a day's journey-U.S. families were caught with boat fever. The sport that 20 years ago was confined largely to fishermen and the rich has become a pastime enjoyed by some 40 million U.S. citizens. In just twelve years the number of boats that churn the U.S.'s waterways has more than tripled, from 2,500,000 to nearly 8,000,000. And the boom is still growing. The estimated $2.5 billion that boat lovers will spend this year will be just twice the amount they shelled out three years...
With more and more people clamoring for an ever-dwindling number of blue-chip pictures, the art market still soared. Sotheby's, the London auction house, last week registered a new high for a Picasso by knocking down his pretty nude, entitled La Belle Hollandaise, to the Queensland Art Gallery of Brisbane, Australia for $154,000. Back in 1905, Picasso painted the picture on a trip to Holland, apparently gave it to a traveling companion in payment for his half of a hotel bill...
...sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom if they renounced their faith, chose to be killed instead. In one district, not a single Christian was spared. Says Drummond: "More than 13% of all Japanese Christians lost their lives...
...there are signs that the housing tide has not reached its peak. The number of mortgage-insurance applications to the FHA is so great that the agency has had to revise its estimate for the current fiscal year from 962,500 to "well over one million" unit applications...
Makers predict that production of room units will rise from last year's 1,350,000 to about 1,700,000, and shipments of central air conditioners will go from last year's 224,000 to 280,000. They expect a boost from the record number of new houses going up this year (see Construction); 10% of them will be built with central air conditioning v. only 1.4% in 1952. Says the Federal Housing Administration: "Within a few years, any house that is not air-conditioned will probably be obsolescent...