Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bellowed "Bravo!" for your Dec. 23 roundup story on music. I'm glad you stressed the country's community orchestras; they are doing a whale of a job. More than 2,250,000 people have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments...
...case, Maria will not be home for long. Around the first of the year she returns to Paris to dub the dialogue for Une Vie. In the spring she hopes to make a picture in Greece. "I love it, every moment of it," she says. "It's not only the money. There's more glory in it than money. To be wonderful in front of everybody, that's the real reward. To be known. To be somebody...
...laboratory oddities turn into new consumer products. General Electric learned to make synthetic diamonds so cheaply that they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron...
...checks from pilots in midair, but planted some free-enterprise seeds along the way. In Athens he left $10,000 with a committee of bankers for local loans, another $6,200 in Istanbul and $10,000 in Beirut. Already approved are loans to a Greek furniture company, a Turkish spring-clip factory, a Lebanese cement contracting business. He landed in India with $220,000 left in hand and a lot more enterprise in mind...
MORTGAGE MONEY will be easier next spring, builders say, since investors are starting to switch from bonds -whose interest rates are falling-to mortgages that bring steady 5% to 6%. Signs of slipping interest rates: Government's short-term borrowing costs are below 3% for first time since May, and a high-grade utility security has been sold for less than 4% for first time this year...