Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, he and Polaroid Corp. have not been alone in this field. Alvin M. and Mortimer M. Marks became interested in the polarizing field in the late 1920s . . . You erred in stating that Polaroid Corp. was the only maker of 3-D viewers through the 3-D movie boom of 1953 and 1954. Licensees under patents of Alvin M. Marks also sold millions of such viewers...
...South, largely because sharecropper and tenant farmers left the farm and turned to the rapidly growing opportunities in industry. Most of the fall-off came in small farms-between 10 and 100 acres. 1% The number of farms decreased in every state except Florida, where the new boom in agriculture (TIME, Dec. 19) pushed the number of farms up from...
...banker making a year-end report, he had good reason. Any Canadian taking stock of the nation's economy at the close of 1955 was bound to be buoyant. The year had begun with some 500,000 unemployed, and with spreading fears that Canada's postwar boom might be collapsing. Not only did such fears turn out to be unfounded, but 1955 turned out to be the best year Canada ever had. In Ottawa last week, the chief watchman of the country's economy, Trade and Commerce Minister C.D. Howe, cited these indicators...
Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
...Billion. In the early days of 1954, there was gloomy talk of a slowing -and possible end-to the postwar boom. Though the economy was still strong, business was falling off and the total of jobless was growing, along with uncertainty about the future. In this critical period, "Red" Curtice stood up before 500 of the nation's top businessmen and industrialists and gave his own pronouncement on the future. General Motors, he said, would spend $1 billion to expand its plants for the increase in auto sales to come. Screamed the headlines: G.M. BETS BILLION: NO SLUMP...