Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom. The foundation of the Gold Coast's high spirits is its burgeoning prosperity-the gift of the cocoa plant, which grows more than 20 feet tall in the dark, rain-drenched forests. Last year the Gold Coast's plantations, all owned by Africans, grew a third of the world's cocoa. And with prices at $10 a load (60 lbs.), the growers are crowding their mud huts with radios, sewing machines, bicycles and even TV sets (though there is no TV station to tune...
...husband, Jerry, are capitalizing on Manhattan's current parakeet boom. They claim that parakeets are outselling canaries at a rate of 9 to 1. The reason? Many urban apartment buildings now bar cats, dogs and children, so parakeets are fulfilling "the pent-up need for pets." Explains Lu: "Parakeets can be taught to talk. They can be taken out of a cage and handled. There's a sensual thing involved. A parakeet offers one of the few rewarding relationships that are left...
...approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons of water pumped through it. With it, he hooked off the tree of the other. The gas then shot out of the wells so fast that the flames were pushed 90 ft. above the platform, giving it a chance...
Blunt Answer. Part of Arkansas' economic growth was a natural result of the postwar boom. But a great deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies...
...Went to Your Wedding (Spike Jones; Victor). Spike lowers the boom on this one, and about time, with an outrageous vocal by "Sir Fredric Gas." Fun for a while...