Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Banking Committee has called John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, to testify March 8 at hearings on the current stock market boom...
Across Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec swept a boom fever as intoxicating as tequila. In the tiny coastal towns of Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos. Mexicans with bulging bankrolls were spending them on refrigerators, Mixmasters, and dozens of other items they could only dream about a few years ago. Slapdash buildings were going up everywhere; Minatitlán's newest hotel opened for business before it was even finished, a second bank went up, honky-tonk bars and gambling joints were busy 24 hours a day. Cause of it all: sulphur, an element far more valuable to industry...
Into the Jungle. The men largely responsible for the boom are three genial, Louisiana-born brothers named Brady-Lawrence, 58, Ashton, 56, and William, 54-who have become wealthy by a combination of brainy prospecting and luck. They found the sulphur, and now own Gulf Sulphur Corp., plus an exploration outfit called Amican Sulphur Co., S.A., and have sizeable stock interests in both Pan American and Mexican Gulf Sulphur. Working as a team, brothers Lawrence and Bill run the administrative end; Ashton is the geologist...
...succeed in developing a more literate race, more susceptible to books and also, propaganda. In the 1920's, with his country facing an economic breakdown, Lenin instituted a New Economic Policy (NEP), a sort of free enterprise economy. Coinciding with this economic easing of control, there was a new boom in creativity. Russian writers began to experiment with different types of forms, visited other countries, and even wrote books about other countries...
...reports of this and other strikes came into Salt Lake City, uranium's Wall Street, brokers were happily riding the crest of a new boom in trading, the biggest rush since last May's frantic buying of penny stocks. The boom then was founded on paper claims and hope; now the penny-stock companies are merging, or being taken over by companies with enough capital to start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising...