Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom on the Clyde. Industrial production is at an alltime high, up 10% in the past two years alone. From John o'Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, unemployment is almost unknown. Glasgow, whose Clyde-side shipyards make it the world's biggest builder of ships, is booming. More important, through energetic promotion Scots have succeeded in diversifying their industry against a new time of trouble; in the past five years, 500 firms have established new factories or made major expansions in Scotland. Where, before, its prosperity was almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast...
...early as 1932 the Alumni Bulletin ran an article on the commuters called "The Untouchables," at that time a totally neglected 28% of the college. The depression slump had tightened about the commuting student and offered him little opportunity to escape into Lowell's house system, then beginning to boom. Although several alumni suggested an integration of the commuters into the houses as non-resident members, a lunchroom opened in the basement of Phillips Brooks House. But the crowded, hot, and messy corner was soon called "The Black Hole of Calcutta...
...vocal groups get best results with music that has a country or hillbilly flavor, with primitive harmonies and tunes that would go over big in a nursery school. A few, such as the Crew-Cuts, are making their way with such nonsense songs as their recent hit called Sh-Boom...
Suddenly, across the noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
MINUTE MAID CORP., which started the frozen-orange-juice boom in 1945 (1953 sales: $36.4 million), has just closed a $40 million deal to buy its biggest competitor, the Snow Crop division of Clinton Foods Inc. Minute Maid will pay Clinton $22.5 million in cash and $17.3 million in Minute Maid bonds for six processing plants and 7,500 acres of citrus groves, will get a full line of frozen fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry, besides becoming by far the biggest orange juice producer in the field...