Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...causes. One of the biggest is a survey made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1949. It found that the U.S., then graduating close to 50,000 engineers a year, had too many. At the time, this was true enough. But shortly afterward, the Korean war and the boom in electronics and guided missiles transformed the picture. The industrial ratio of engineers to factory workers, which stood at one to 100 during the late '20s, has increased to one to 60, and is rising with every new automated process. But though the BLS retracted its 1949 warning...
...midst of a major opera boom. Last season, 444 groups- in 45 states gave some 2,400 operatic performances. Two-thirds of them were standard repertory, from the Marriage of Figaro to Madame Butterfly. The rest were contemporary. In the last two seasons, 115 different contemporary operas were performed, 91 of them by Americans...
economy suffered only a mild hesitation in 1954 in the boom...
...Davy Crockett label. Though Disney insisted that Schwartz had let the trademark lapse in 1950, Schwartz said no. He and his partner, Henry Kay of Baltimore, split up, but, Schwartz says, Kay kept right on making Crockett clothing under an agreement with Schwartz. Last month, with the current boom well under way, Schwartz bought out Kay and began licensing manufacturers to use his Davy Crockett label, usually at 5% of their net sales...
...retailers see no reason why the Davy Crockett boom should not keep growing at least until Christmas. Intoned a solemn Detroit buyer: "Why, Davy Crockett is bigger even than Mickey Mouse...