Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...Finally, four years ago, she persuaded a New Orleans disk jockey called Poppa Stoppa to put her on his program. Soon after that, she had singing jobs again, swept along by the huge current jazz boom. "I dug up my old antique gowns - crepe and satin -and my long beads and fancy combs and shoes with rhinestones on the heels." The Music Was Different. Today, billed as vocalist with the Scobey combo, Lizzie is playing some of the country's better-known jazz spots (including, last month, Chicago's Blue Note). Everywhere, she becomes the favorite as soon...
...will business be next year? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week took a look ahead, found the prospect pleasing. The "alltime high" boom of 1955 would keep running ahead. Despite 1955's record output of more than 7,000,000 cars, the Chamber expected that '56 auto sales would be almost as high. Construction, consistently on the upgrade every year since World War II, would increase again...
...general financial position of farmers remains relatively strong." The reason is that while farmers started out with lower cash incomes than most of the U.S. (but grew much of their own food), their incomes shot up faster than anyone else during World War II and in the postwar boom. From 1939 through 1951, per capita farm incomes zoomed from $244 to $970, a gain of almost 300%; at the same time, non-farm incomes climbed only 175% to $1,735. And farmers have managed to hang on to most of the gain. Historically, farm prices have plummeted at least...
...addition they possessed the opportunity to send the ball over the crossbar between both of the tall goalposts. One man held the ball, its pointed end up. Bobby Locke ran up: BOOM!--jubilation in the stadium--now it was seven points for the Giants. The first fifteen minutes were over...