Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom That Travelers Built (March 14), a gallery of palatial new motels...
...North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...
Though some relief may come from the legislature next year, this will only begin to solve the problem. Many towns are therefore going after the man who has benefited most from the boom: the builder. Though they are not sure whether it is legal or not, Park Ridge and Markham have both passed ordinances requiring builders to contribute $250 to $300 for every new home (which will, of course, actually be added to the price of the house). In Palatine, one builder has put up a 30-room schoolhouse to take care of the residents of his new development...
More spectacularly, the new desert boom is studded with examples of settlers who have come up fast and furiously...
...father of seven children, ranging in age from 36 to 2. At 59, he is still husky, cleaves the air with a great Roman nose which he once broke playing Rugby. He looks and moves like a grizzly bear, is an authority on army obscenity, can boom out many a bawdy, masculine song to his own guitar accompaniment. In Majorca he rises early, scorns the Spaniards' late meal hours, tucks away hearty platters of nononsense, British-type roast lamb, cabbage and potatoes...