Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom carried no feeling of fraternal jubilee to the general's older brother,* Edgar Eisenhower, a Tacoma lawyer. Said Edgar last week: "I'm sincerely opposed to Dwight's running. I question whether Christ himself could do the job that has to be done. People are looking for miracles, and I'd hate to see Dwight get in a wringer. He could swing his arms and thrash the water, but if Congress wasn't with him, then he'd be sunk ... I don't want him crucified. I'm sorry the country...
...Joyous Boom. Too excited to stand on ceremony, Egypt's King picked up a telephone himself to break the good news to the Prime Minister. "On this blessed day," proclaimed the national radio a few minutes later, "when the sun of smiling hope arose and the most shining diamond in the Crown of the Nile Valley lighted, the Royal Cabinet announces the birth of Prince Ahmed Fuad...
...Angry Boom. Despite the brief pause for refreshments, Egypt's unforgiving nationalists continued their fight with Britain. At the northern end of the Suez Canal Zone, Prince Fuad's royal salutes were echoed in the rattle of gunfire at Port Said, during a four-hour clash between Britons and guerrillas. In Cairo and Zagazig, the funerals of six Egyptians killed in a clash at Tell el-Kebir led to further rioting. Mourners charged on nightclubs and movie houses like so many Carry Nations, demanding a cessation of frivolity out of respect to the dead...
...about four years ago, Offie Shannon was hardly noticed. A 46-year-old Texas farmer, Shannon went into the grain business, and he and his wife helped pour the concrete for his first grain elevator. But before long, he was the talk of the town. A one-man building boom, Shannon built close to $750,000 worth of warehouses, stores and houses. He was elected president of the local chamber of commerce. In his spare time, Shannon wrote and started to film a movie on the life of Christ, with a cast of townspeople. He also laid plans to build...
...change in the overall program to boost the Air Force from 95 to 143 wings. But instead of being completed by 1953, as first planned, the 143 wings will not be finished until 1955 or 1956. Peak production will be lower and delivery lengthened. The aircraft industry's boom will be longer, but thinner...