Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, stocks of the traditionally boom & bust aviation industry have been Wall Street favorites. This week, as four of the nation's biggest planemakers released 1953 earnings, the reasons were plain: not only were profits at or near record levels, but the industry's backlog (nearly $17 billion) assured at least two more years of financial feasting...
...over 1952. Net earnings amounted to $12.51 per share, and Boeing announced that it would split the stock two for one. At year's end, the backlog had climbed to $2,357,000,000, and the company expects 1954 sales to top 1953. In reflecting the boom, Boeing stock climbed from...
...Western states last week, there was a feverish new boom in penny uranium stocks. People with a few spare dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
...moved seven floors up in the same building to form Whitney Investment Co., and expects to gross $50,000 this year as a broker in penny stocks. Stockseller Coombs also started his own brokerage firm. Others got into the act, formed their own companies and began peddling stock. The boom will come of age when & if Prospector Steen and ex-Automan Joseph Frazer, who have formed Standard Uranium, get their stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange, as scheduled...
...Cinemaker Walt Disney, already the winner of 18 Oscars, won four more for his documentaries Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, The Living Desert, and the cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom...