Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...URANIUM BOOM will exceed all estimates, predicts Henry C. Anderson, planning manager for General Electric's atomic-power department. By 1975 atom-powered electric plants will be consuming 22,150 tons of uranium annually. Amount of ore required: 9,000,000 tons, several times current production...
Harris added that "we seem to be on top of a boom fueled by an unusual expansion of credit and banking...a matter worthy of investigation and action...
...well-fed society is just the starting point for an expanding economy that will demand the best from all the people in order to give the best to all the people. The Federal Government, reflecting the growing mood of most Americans, has at last stopped thinking in terms of boom and bust, and is thinking in terms of graph lines going upward, with prices staying steady...
Although two good crop years and a record tourist influx have contributed to the boom, it would have been impossible without a revival of confidence in Mexican business circles. Chief architect of the confidence has been hardheaded Treasury Secretary Antonio Carrillo Flores, whose policy of reduced government intervention in business slowed down and then reversed the flight of capital that resulted from post-devaluation jitters in 1954. Nobody knows better than Economist Carrillo Flores that there are still bad spots in the Mexican economy. Antiquated labor laws hamper development of the textile industry, for example, and Mexican agriculture is still...
...construction, farm machinery and aviation. New markets in petrochemicals, natural gas and increasing auto travel boosted Phillips Petroleum's 1955 profit to a record $95 million, 25% more than 1954; the company will spend $200 million on expansion in 1956 and confidently predicts still higher earnings. The boom in business flying brought light-plane-maker Cessna Aircraft sales of $16 million for fiscal 1956's first-quarter, 30% more than a year ago. In housing, the demand for home and factory insulation materials pushed Johns-Manville Corp.'s 1955 sales to $285 million, its second-best year...