Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caribbean hotels. On Feb. 24 the $22 million, 630-room Havana Hilton will open, with a casino. Already running in Havana is the $6,000,000. 252-room Capri. Puerto Rico will soon inaugurate the 359-room, ocean-front San Juan Intercontinental. In Jamaica the Arawak's record for size will stand only until next year, when the 200-room Marrakech will open on the north shore. Chief Minister Norman Manley foresees that tourism, now earning Jamaica around $25 million a year, will jump to 500,000 visitors and $100 million in revenue...
Love, Love, Love. Even without the advent of what might be called LL (for long-looking) disks, the record industry has profoundly influenced American pop and jazz artists. While in the early days of the microgroove decade the 45-r.p.m. disk was the major vehicle for pop singers, all of the more imaginative pop and show tunes are now recorded on LPs. The 45, with only three minutes to sell its wares, relies on the babbling lyrics and thudding beat of rock 'n' roll and kindred styles. But the LP provides time for the leisurely display of stylists...
...category "classical music," in the usage of the recording industry, may stretch all the way from Wanda Landowska to Wladziu Valentine Liberace. Within that range, the smaller companies count as a bestseller any disk that sells more than 15,000 copies, while with the larger outfits a hit record may approach half a million (the industry guards exact sales figures with almost paranoid intensity, with each company claiming that all others are cheating). Here, in order of popularity over the last decade, are the top five classical LP sellers of the leading classical companies...
...closely geared to expected sales. General Motors, which took a drubbing in the 1957 model year, is coming back fast, this month will produce 310,000 autos v. 280,000 for December 1956. Last week Chevrolet scheduled production of 46,400 cars, which would be an alltime weekly production record for the division. Although Ford insists that its sales are up, it has cut its production to 26% of the industry's total v. 31% for the first eleven months, is laying off about 5,000 production workers, principally at its Detroit-area plants. (But it hired workers...
Titans Leaning on Tots. This year the presses are turning out more than 350 million copies of juvenile books-nearly one in three of all books published in the U.S. Some 2,000 new titles are on the shelves, and sales are expected to top last year's record-breaking $80 million. Many a children's book, even in the higher price range, dwarfs the sales of adult bestsellers. Where an adult novel usually achieves its peak sales within six months of publication and then drops off to virtually nothing, the successful children's book...