Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yukon a far broader boom than the Klondike gold rush. The new road to Hay River in the Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring...
...since more Vivaldi scores have been discovered (latest count: 409 instrumental concerti, 136 pieces for chamber ensembles, 54 sacred choral works and 46 operas), the vigorous contrapuntal music of the red-haired priest is enjoying a boom...
...investment in Canada has indeed grown fast-from $5 billion to an estimated $7.2 billion since 1945-but the overall Canadian economy has grown faster. While Americans took the risk of financing such spectacular enterprises as the Alberta oil boom, Canadians were investing at an even faster clip in bonds, plant expansions, and other less dramatic developments of. the national economy. Result: the proportion of U.S. ownership is shrinking, not growing. The Canadian economy is freer of foreign control now than at any time in the country's history...
...Coldspot freezers along with arrangements to stock them with food at 25% below retail prices; the Bank of America is financing the Sears food plan on six-month loans. Big Amana Refrigeration, Inc. (TIME, Jan. 16, 1950), which makes freezers for Maytag, got a head start on the freezer boom because one of its distributors, John Bess, pioneered one of the biggest food plans in the East. Through his Freezer Owners Association of America, Bess has made his pitch in 22 East Coast cities, including New York, Philadelphia and Providence; last year he moved $3,000,000 worth of freezers...
...fabled fleshpots. The whole world dances to its sexy rumbas and mambos. Its socialites dine off gold plate, and its sumptuous casinos are snowed under by the pesos of sugar-rich playboys. The "dance of the millions" that Cuba knew in its brief post-World War I sugar boom is going again full blast. Batista brought off his coup at the top of Cuba's market...