Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ECONOMY Biggest Boom This year is well on its way to being the biggest boom year of all. So the Joint Congressional Economic Committee on the Economic Report last week estimated on the basis of reports for the first six months. Items...
...Business Boom. Coihueco's election was held because the balloting there in March had been voided by irregularities. The complex mechanics of the substitute election sharpened the drama. Each of the two leading candidates needed only some of Coihueco's votes (added to votes already won elsewhere in the electoral district) to top the required minimum "quotient." Government Candidate Serafin Soto needed only 150 of the voters, who numbered 1,194, including neighboring farmers. Opposition Candidate Juan Luis Urrutia needed...
Americans had better start looking in the attic: grandfather's old glass paperweight is having a big boom in the art world. Rare old specimens fetch as much...
...baby boom is still in full swing: 971,000 babies were born in the U.S. during the first three months of 1953, some 29,000 more than in the same period last year. And 1952 produced the alltime record number...
...found out. Onstage, in a brisk walk, came 52-year-old Baritone Eddy, his blond-tinted grey hair brushed to wavy perfection. When he began singing, the crowd knew for sure that he had not changed at all; his big voice had not lost a bit of its old boom, or, for that matter, its slight nasal tone. There was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also...