Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Lake Erie shore east of Toledo rose a droning peep-pop of small arms. Occasionally, the peepers' chorus was lost in the bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through...
...vehement in believing that federal control of power is (as Socialists freely admit) a basic step toward socialism. Yet the lavish public-power projects of the New and Fair Deals brought regional benefits which kept many a Congressman in office for years. TVA started the South's industrial boom; the Columbia River dams rejuvenated the economy of the Northwest. Last week, when Interior Secretary Douglas McKay issued his long-awaited statement on the power policy of the Eisenhower Administration, politicians from Nashville to Seattle listened intently...
Eight years after the Götterdämmerung of 1945, the Western half of Germany is rapidly becoming the most powerful nation in Europe. U.S. aid got the wheels of industry turning; German hard work turned revival into boom. Last week Chancellor Adenauer, touring his busy nation, watched farmers getting in what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. Franconia's hop fields promised all the beer Germans could drink; the sunny Moselle Valley flowed with good white wine. So fatly prosperous was the countryside that one small town ordered all its councilmen's chairs...
...billion from the September peak, still are almost four times as great as before Korea. Even such sick industries as textiles were showing signs of recovery. In ironic contrast to the pessimism of cautious capitalists like Odlum, the C.I.O.'s top economist, Stanley Ruttenberg, felt sure that the boom would roar on unabated all year...
...farmers, aristocrats of the postwar boom, higher production has not meant higher earnings, as it has for industry. But neither has the farm recession spelled disaster. The Agriculture Department reports farm income from the first half of 1953 down only 6% from a year ago. Unless the drop is accelerated later in the year, U.S. farm income in 1953 should be the sixth highest of all time...