Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...industries that would benefit most from conversion of the U.S. economy from a war to a peace footing. Prices of conventionally built homes, however, have risen beyond the reach of more than half of the nation's families. The result, already beginning, may be a bonanza for mobile-home manufacturers, such as Redman, Philips Industries, Champion Home Builders and Mobile Home Industries...
Many other Italian towns have also reaped a bonanza from the piety of pilgrims. Isola del Gran Sasso is an island of noisy prosperity in the depressed area of the Abruzzi Mountains because of the shrine of San Gabriele dell' Ad-dolorato, who is revered for his patience and submission to the will of superiors. On the saint's feast day, Feb, 21, the piazza in front of the shrine rings with the din of jukeboxes and shooting galleries and the cries of vendors selling rosaries and cold beer. Some 300,000 pilgrims yearly visit the shrine...
...prosperity. From early 1968 through May 1970, the stock exchanges shortened their hours to help overburdened back-office staffs cope with a mountain of paper work. The snarls persisted, delaying the transfer of stock certificates between buyers and sellers and creating a furor. Convinced that the trading bonanza was permanent, many brokers began an orgy of expansion, opening up costly new branch offices that they are now busy closing. "There was a bit of collective insanity in those days," recalls Stein. "The market lost its reason and almost lost its future...
...knew what the public wanted: a Bible. In the U.S., Protestant and Roman Catholic publishers alike found it profitable to follow Gutenberg's lead. Bibles and hymnals, missals and prayer books, inspirational and theological works always had a certain dependable bread-and-butter market. Religious periodicals were a bonanza -with a combined circulation, in the mid-'60s, estimated at nearly 60 million. But the crisis in Christian faith during the late 1960s and divisions over doctrinal and social issues within Protestantism and Catholicism have changed the situation. Religious publishing is in serious trouble...
Friedrich tells the old episodes in new detail and also offers some that are not widely known. A Curtis consultant suggests that the Post convert scripts of TV's Bonanza series into short stories because of their "proven popularity." To save on paper, the Post is shaved in 1966 by one-eighth or an inch along the top and bottom and one-sixteenth along the sides. Ackerman, faced with the possible loss of $400,000 in Ford Motor Co. advertising, suddenly tells the Ford representative: "You know, I really can't understand why you'd take...