Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the splashy annual Cannes film festival produced its share of ecdysis among the visiting females. A Yugoslav beauty challenged Cannes Visitor Jayne Mansfield to a boom-or-bust tape-measure duel. Two Norwegian models, coyly heeding the open-fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder...
Economist Reierson dismissed the idea that the economy will slip into deep depression. But neither did he see any return to the boom for several years. Industry has too much overcapacity for another big investment surge and consumers are so deeply in debt that their buying power will be curtailed for some time. Concluded Reierson: "Admittedly, this appraisal runs counter to much of the economic thinking of our times, which takes for granted a quick return to long-term growth. Yet there is a real possibility that it may well take until the 1960s before the economy regains sufficient thrust...
FREE URANIUM MARKET, authorized by AEC, will permit producers to sell ore and concentrate to private U.S. and foreign firms for first time. Uranium men expect no immediate sales boom, but figure on big private market to develop over next few years...
...most heavily traded stock on the American Stock Exchange last week belonged to a company that few Wall Streeters had heard of until recently: General Development Corp., whose shares went from twelve to 17? in the past month. General Development, pioneering a new kind of land boom in Florida, is building and selling houses at a price that retired oldsters on social security can afford...
...brothers inherited the business just before Pearl Harbor, turned to building for the Government. When peace came, they cashed in on the veterans' housing boom, built an average of $6,500,000 worth of houses a year by pricing their houses about $1,000 less than their competitors. Like other big builders, they trimmed construction costs by doing their own concrete and roadwork, are always alert to save even pennies; recently they saved 45^ a house by rerouting an electrical conduit...