Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...levels, and climbing. At $21.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 1958, after-tax profits showed a $3 billion jump from the third quarter; undistributed profits, or the money companies still have after taxes, dividends, etc., were up to $9.8 billion, the highest level since the first quarter of boom year 1957. The high profit level, plus the assurance of a fine first-quarter report for 1959, gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling. Many a corporation will be able to dust off the expansion plans shelved during the recession, and once...
Today everyone is engaged in seeking culture: book and record-of-the-month clubs flourish; people, according to an amazed Time Magazine, actually buy paintings, and Fine Arts 13 is crowded. While the culture boom has been conspicious in the field of the "fine arts" one need not be a sociologist with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern...
...hostile Patagonia hides riches that can make the difference between boom and bust for Argentina's dollar-short wheat-beef economy. With a new "Operation Patagonia" and with massive infusions of foreign capital, President Arturo Frondizi has high hopes of unlocking the treasure house. He has already kicked off Operation Patagonia with a series of projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit...
...rollicking history of musical instruments, suggesting that every musical sound is basically a toot, whistle, plunk or boom...
Shell Game. Chesler stalked small companies with big potential, accurately sniffed the coming boom in electronics, Florida land, and leisure activities, including horseracing...