Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand for raw materials. Moreover, construction, long a mainstay of the boom, was still running 5% ahead of last year's level in spite of FRB's failure to remove its Regulation X curbs on building...
...political explosion of atomic proportions," said Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. "It's a revolution," burbled one hardened Republican professional. Both comparisons may have been somewhat extravagant. But no one could deny last week that in Massachusetts' presidential primary there was a resounding boom for Candidate Dwight David Eisenhower...
...Handel. And his music is permeated with a sunny warmth unequaled by his northern competitors. The Herald Tribunes Virgil Thomson ended his review with a burst of continental enthusiasm. "Evviva Vivaldi! And let's have more of him." There is plenty more to hear, and the Vivaldi boom shows every sign of settling down into a thorough, long-range revival...
...full-fledged recession? Some businessmen, such as Montgomery Ward's gloomy Sewell Avery, thought that it would. But the majority did not think so, especially since the Government is expected to relax credit restrictions, which are one of the big curbs on sales. Actually, after the frenzied boom last year, business was getting back to a merely normal boom. Many businessmen who had been allocating their production had a hard time realizing that they had to work to sell goods again...
...this day. Hoover is not sure what Calvin Coolidge's 1928 intentions really were. But the Hoover boom grew, almost without effort on Hoover's part. He had no official preconvention campaign manager, and he made no political speeches before his party met at Kansas City and nominated him on the first ballot. The election was a sweep: 40 states for Hoover (including such Democratic strongholds as Texas, North Carolina and Virginia), only eight for Al Smith. "I came to the White House with a program of vigorous policies," adds Herbert Hoover. "But instead of being able...