Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triumphant Boom. When time came for L.B.J. to speak, his refurbished oratorical style surprised even his friends. Gone was the perfunctory, toneless reading; he spoke slowly, ran the scale from a confidential whisper to a triumphant boom (for future reference, an aide in the audience noted where he talked too fast and where too slowly). But more redolent of candidacy was his message. Lyndon demanded (triumphant boom) Democratic leadership and action in 1960 to save America. Then he offered (confidential whisper) examples of such action: "Hawaiian statehood had been on the calendar for 40 years-and a Democratic Senate passed...
Wages Up. In the boom's early years, profits went mainly into the pockets of owners and managers, or back into expansion. Labor docilely withheld wage demands while industry rebuilt, and heeded the argument that costs had to be kept low to compete in international markets. Now workers and salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often...
...mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative. This 'thing' that no longer gives pain probably because I can't feel it through the cold, clammy, clutching fear that's gnawing at my vitals...
...economy's transition from recovery to boom was underscored last week by first-quarter earnings from the nation's two leading steelmakers. Top-ranking U.S. Steel Corp. reported a 9.9% return on sales for a net of $106.6 million, or $1.86 per share, up more than 70% from $1.04 per share for the first quarter last year. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second largest producer, doubled its first-quarter earnings per share to $1.06 from 52? last year...
...rosy statistics generated by the vigorous U.S. economy last week no longer spelled mere recovery. They gave every indication that the U.S. is in another boom. Items...