Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonanza...
...program sprouted like Jack's beanstalk, sucking up men and money at a prodigious rate, sending its tendrils into every state. Infant space industries grew overnight to monster maturity. Scientists and engineers flocked to space centers to find their pots of gold. There seemed no end to the bonanza. Before it was over, the moon race might cost $40 billion, but no one seemed to care...
...Canadian economy, would have its impact elsewhere as well. Word came from Australia that it would sell Russia another $100 million worth. Moscow was dickering with West Germany for 250,000 tons of flour. Even U.S. wheat growers, stuck with a huge surplus, hoped to get in on the bonanza; the State Department in Washington apparently had no objections...
Probably the main reason for Leyland's present export bonanza is that while most other British firms were blissfully contemplating Britain's entry into the Common Market, Leyland was busy establishing assembly plants in Belgium and The Netherlands. When France blackballed Britain, Leyland was in a better position to compete on the Continent than most other British companies. It intends to keep right on pushing its advantage, plans to set up plants in West Germany and Italy soon...
...spoke at lunch next day to patrons of the Phoenix Neurological Institute, rapped the Kennedy Administration, adding "The more I think about it the more I think Harry Truman will go down in history as one of the greater Presidents."Off to the airport soon afterward, Barry flew his Bonanza to a commencement address at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. This time the subject was again patriotism and conservatism, with a generous portion of praise for an old Democrat named Thomas Jefferson...