Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the big farms are now mechanized and comparatively prosperous, they are still so dependent upon a decent rainfall that farming in North Dakota is rated by its governor to be a boom-and-bust proposition: between 1919 and 1952 the state's wheat production fluctuated between the extraordinary extremes of 19 and 160 million bushels a year. Since 1930, the population of the state has declined from 680,000 to 620,000-the biggest percentage drop in all the 48 states...
Maroc-Presse, started in 1949 by Mine-Owner Jacques Walter, was not founded as a crusading newspaper, but to cash in on Morocco's postwar boom. In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin. But in 1953, Maroc-Presse's Editorial Director Henri Sartout decided that France could no longer rule Morocco by force, should instead give the natives a voice in government, and thus win their support. The attack on the paper began at once. French business men pulled out their advertising...
Rolling happily along with the building boom, Johns-Manville earned more than it ever did before in any second quarter, making $6,531,742 v. $5,435,663 a year ago. National Gypsum broke all first-half earnings records as it made...
...BUSINESS BOOM will keep growing in 1955's second half, predicts Allan Sproul, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Said he: "The business recovery has been sparked by housing and steel, but it has now broadened out so that if there is a leveling off in housing and autos, business should continue to improve in the 1955 second half...
Riding the Boom. Soon after Hearst died (TIME, Aug. 20, 1951), Marion took notice of the postwar building boom, decided that the time had come to develop her holdings. She hired the law firm of Bautzer, Grant, Youngman & Silbert, thereby got the services of Hollywood Lawyer-Bachelor-About-Town Gregson Bautzer and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. "I do what they tell me," says Marion. "Greg has a great mind for real estate. He's smarter than...