Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are checks and stripes and flowery prints, and even polka-dot underwear. And 1955's summer clothes are flexible, as the result of a continuing boom in "separates." There are a thousand different kinds of blouses that look as well with a skirt at a dinner party as with Bermuda shorts at a picnic. In California, bathing-suit makers Cole and Rose Marie Reid have gone so far as to put out "evening convertibles"-swimsuits that can be made into evening dresses by adding fluffy tulle skirts. Price...
...last November. Like all good poets, he lives in his lines. Like none before the 20th century, he lives also in his own reading of those lines. The success of Caedmon's Dylan Thomas disks (25,000 copies sold in three years) is only part of a current boom in "speaking records." The idea itself is as old as the phonograph.* But recently, literature for listening rather than reading-"the book that talks"-has won a major place on U.S. bookshelves...
...nation's economists have concluded that U.S. industry would be wise to curb its boundless appetite. The Federal Reserve Board, noting that business borrowings for expansion are heavier than they have been since 1953, decided the time had come to apply a mild brake before the boom gets out of hand. The brake: a boost in the rediscount rate from 1½ to 1¾ Since this is the rate at which member banks borrow from the Federal Reserve, the rise will make it more expensive to do so. This is expected to act as a slight restraint...
...monthly letter to salesmen, Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. could find only one way to describe business: "Sales are booming, booming, booming." Like the rest of the U.S. light-plane industry, Cessna is indeed in the midst of the biggest peacetime boom in its history. In 1955's first quarter alone, Cessna, Beech and Piper, the three top private plane makers, sold more than 1,000 planes, worth $20.8 million, a full 40% better than last year. Reason: businessmen are flying nearly 4,000,000 hours annually, more than all the scheduled airlines put together...
Bombers to Babies. The new boom is all the more remarkable because the light-plane industry almost cracked up after