Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrison E. Spangler, Iowa's veteran (20 years) Republican national committeeman, predicted that 20 of the state's 26 delegates to the National Convention would be for Taft. But that was before the Eisenhower ground swell rose in Iowa. As the Ike boom grew, the Taft men pared their claims, finally said they would be satisfied with an even split...
...when the Republican voters of Minnesota went to the polls through snow and mud and wrote in Ike's name nearly 107,000 times, the clear call was unmistakable. Linked together, the results of New Hampshire and Minnesota became a striking and momentous demonstration that an Eisenhower boom of tremendous proportions is sweeping across the land...
...thousand Taft workers were ringing doorbells, saturating the state with newspaper ads, radio programs, buttons, auto-bumper cards and literature. Taft & Co. were shooting the works in boom-busting Wisconsin.* Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls had said: "If we don't win in Wisconsin we'd better go home...
...year; materials were so plentiful that builders will be able to put up all the houses they can sell. The big question now is: How many can they sell? Said Real Estate Economist Roy Wenzlick, a top expert in the field: "I think the real-estate boom is starting to get tired...
Empty Rooms. There were plenty of signs last week that in a tired boom, 950,000 houses might be too many for the market. With 6,000,000 new houses built since the war, the emergency demand, at least, seemed largely met. As in any free market, the high-priced units were the first to feel the change...