Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lourdes have labored to prepare for the record 8,000,000 pilgrims expected in this centenary year. On Rue de la Grotte the four-story Hotel Vatican is crusted with scaffolding as workmen rush completion of two more floors. Most of the 600 other hotels in the city (pop. 16,000) are booked solid from April to November...
...Amami Oshima, an island in the typhoon-swept East China Sea, 200 miles southwest of Japan. The islanders are beset by leprosy, poverty, poisonous snakes, and fire. Again and again, storm-spread fires have all but wiped out the wooden shanties of Nase, the island's largest town (pop. 43,000). This month such a fire razed one of Nase's poorest sections-and blazed up into an ideological battle between a Communist and a Christian...
...Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the Wind caught the public fancy, Hollywood's rule-of-baton used-to be that a good score is one the audience does not hear.* Now film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies whose titles they bore, but also became huge independent hits. Nowadays a producer may assign a composer to do a title tune even before...
...Other pop records...
...recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department "a small assortment" of day-old bread and cakes for distribution to welfare cases, only "seven arrived to obtain some of the free fare...