Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. declined the hotel's request to supply ammunition to a local Marine artillery battery for a 21-gun salute (it was no state visit). Then the harassed protocol men asked the Navy for help. The Navy designated a Miami-docked destroyer to boom the salute, but the ship's captain discovered that he had no blank ammunition for his five-inchers...
...20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Alma Morgenthau to support the creation of new music. But today, U.S. composers are witnessing the most lavish patronage boom they have ever seen...
...stock exchanges all over the world, blood brothers of Wall Street's bull were on the rampage last week. Good business abroad, peace, and confidence in the U.S. economy as the bulwark of the free world combined to create the greatest stock boom the world has ever seen...
...effort to get government out of business, the Republican Administration has made notable strides at home. But overseas, the job of switching foreign aid from government to private management is just beginning. Paradoxically, the great U.S. boom has tended to hold down private ventures abroad, since the opportunities at home have been so rich. A businessman's program providing incentive for more private capital and know-how to flow overseas would help the free world compete with Communism by capitalizing on capitalism itself. If the U.S. and foreign nations worked together to make investment abroad inviting, there was little...
Such policies helped check the slide and start business up again. The biggest boom was in the building industry. Total construction hit a new high of $37 billion, up 6% from 1953, without counting the great do-it-yourself boom, which had grown from a hobby into a $6 billion industry...