Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ottawa's attitude was a far cry from its feelings at a similar conference in 1932. Then, weakened by a depression and with her exports lagging, Canada fought for preferential trade treatment within the Commonwealth. Now, riding a record boom in domestic production and foreign trade, Ottawa spokesmen are inclined to scold the sterling countries...
...exactress who toured with Nazimova in War Brides during 1914-15, Nila is a childless widow in her late fifties. Her scripts, in which, as she says, "the good are very good and the bad get just what they deserve," come out flatly against racial prejudice, boom such worthy sentiments as honor and service in good causes. Her sound-effects men developed some wonderful sizzling and steaming noises when boiling oil was poured over Ali Baba's 40 thieves hiding in jars. Bluebeard gets his just deserts, too, but only by implication: "The kids are tickled to death when...
...most buildings of any account were decorated with high, wide & handsome representations of saints (and, occasionally, sinner: These paintings, done in weatherproof fresco and retouched every 50 years so, still make scores of Bavarian streets look like open-air picture galleries. Today the art of housepainting is enjoying a boom, thanks largely to the efforts and skill of a Garmisch-Partenkirchen painter named Heinrich Bickel...
Every so often the prophets of doom begin mumbling darkly that people have satisfied all their big postwar demands and the boom is ending. Last week, hard at work with slide rule, questionnaire and adding machine, the busy statisticians showed that a vast reservoir of demand still remains...
There are two reasons for this. Manning, at 43 the nation's youngest Premier, enjoys an unrivaled personal popularity, while his province is enjoying an unprecedented boom. A slight (135 lbs.), teetotaling Baptist, Manning has won a wide following with his special blend of evangelism and politics. Said Edmonton Voter Jim Mclvor: "I'm no church man like the Premier, with his preaching and his radio church hour, but I've got faith in Manning." So, too, have the big oil producers, who approve of Manning's handling of Alberta's rich...