Word: boom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who smoke two packs or more). So, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute told the committee, a filter that stops 40% or more of tar from a regular cigarette made of good tobacco "will be a partial answer." But during the five-year boom in filters, no such tip has been marketed. Testified Dr. Wynder: "Some companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filtered cigarettes and its equal wish for good tobacco flavor by marketing increasingly ineffective filters...
...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when the post-World War II baby boom invalidated his forecast that the U.S. would become a nation of oldsters...
That was the end of Farben as such. But it was the beginning of an amazing recovery by the free-enterprising successors to the cartel, which has resulted in bigger sales than their prewar parent ever had. In the postwar German boom, Farben's vigorous successor companies have won back far more of their immense prewar business and prestige than the most optimistic German had hoped for. Sales of the three biggest companies last year topped $1.09 billion, just over Farben's prewar total; and they are rising at the rate of 12% a year (but are still...
...fragility of his frivolity. Perhaps he could best be ticketed as an American P. G. Wodehouse. His Mame-brained characters with their vestigial memories of wealth and lineage are certainly kin to those of the great master of total piffle. Tanner's trade is boom-escapism; the preferred temperature for hatching one of his books is a Dow-Jones average of 500 or better. Satisfied holders of Auntie Mame can look forward to a fat stock dividend, which Tanner expects to declare on next spring's publishing list. Auntie Mame is going to Europe, though she will scarcely...