Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts forever...
...more records were broken last week in the rocketing Alberta oil boom. A public auction of government-owned oil and natural-gas leases totaled $12,881,436, surpassing the previous record for a one-day sale by more than $3,000,000. One of the leases, for a 160-acre plot in the Bonnie Glen field southwest of Edmonton, was sold to the Texaco Exploration Co. for $3,110,000, the highest price ever paid for a single parcel of Alberta oil land...
...taught a whole generation of students at Cambridge's Perse School to talk Latin and Greek as freely as they would any modern language. By the time he died in 1950, he was known as Britain's most lively and controversial translator, responsible for a new Homer boom. This week there are signs that the boom is still on: total U.S. sales of the Rouse Odyssey and Iliad, Mentor Classics announced, have topped 600,000, and a brand-new English edition of the Odyssey has just come...
...revue has been presented before, but as the fellow in the next seat remarked, "the material never gets stale." Lehrer has more angles than a protractor. He uses the tired Joke of the Radcliffe girl's supposed unattractiveness, but by casting the young lady as "The Thing" (Boom-boom-boom), he leaves his audience roaring...
Asked if a revival of the Stevenson boom would affect his chances of getting the nomination Harriman answered. "Governor Stevenson has said he is not a candidate and I am" He further volunteered. "I think I'm the only man who can defeat Eisenhower, because I've had more experience in international affairs and in domestic affairs. We've got to have a progressive program at home as well as abroad...