Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reflecting the increased pace of the new boom, the Labor Department reported last week that in mid-July, employment reached an alltime record of 67,594,000, rising by 252,000 over June. What pleased Government economists most was the 110,000 drop in long-term unemployment (15 weeks or more) to 817,000 in July...
...Chilean towns, from Farellones to Villarrica, share the boom. Yet the new look of the mountains is most exciting at Portillo, the big resort built by the government in 1947 and then almost written off as a total failure. The idea was to provide a setting like something out of an old Sonja Henie film. The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere...
...something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...
...boom has passed a significant milestone. The buyers' market of the recession, said the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago last week, has turned into the sellers' market of prosperity. Rising demand from industry and consumers has increased delivery time on new orders and created scattered shortages for freight cars and trucking rigs. It has also brought a short supply of labor in many skilled trades and slowed the rate of gain in output per worker as the number of jobholders has increased. "Under these circumstances," forecast the bank, "it appears likely that any substantial further increases in demand...
Lounging in his $120,000 home one Sunday last spring, a tough-faced, balding Indiana builder named James Robert Price decided to get ready for the building boom of the 19603 in the fastest way possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest maker of prefabricated houses, Jim Price felt that not even National was big enough for what lay ahead. That week he walked into the company's Lafayette, Ind. executive offices, pointed to a map and said: "I want a plant here, here and here...