Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stability and regulation of the stock market since 1929 have no insured it against another crash. He cited the increasing number of newcomers on the market and the growth of margin buying, reported last night by the New York Federal reserve Bank, as danger signals, which could indicate another boom and crash cycle...
Britain's newly found boom could turn to bust. That was the clear implication of a series of drastic measures announced last week to the House of Commons by Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler. Amid jeers from the Labor benches and gasps from the Tories, Butler warned that Britain, which earned a surplus of $560 million last year, is slipping back into the red. Inflation threatens, the dollar gap is widening, sterling is depressed...
With spirit such as that, Penticton quickly earned a reputation as a fine place to play. Skaters drifted in from all over Canada. Veterans came out of retirement. Bernie ("Boom Boom") Bathgate brought 15 years of experience to the team; Mike Shebaga, 32 years old and scrawny as hockey players go, pulled on his pads and turned out to be a stickhandling Houdini...
...investors regarded the cement industry as profitable-until recently. But in last week's bull market, cement stocks were holding their own with aircraft and oil. Riding the construction boom, they have doubled in price in the last year, while extra dividends and stock splits have become common. In the last month alone, North American Cement Corp. split its stock 4 for 3 and General Portland Cement split...
...industry has come full circle since the '20s, when boom talk lured it into its last expansion. In the mid-'30s, Depression winds cooled its kilns; as private and public construction slumped, plants all over the nation shut down and production dropped to less than 30% of capacity...