Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This to be the last year of the booming, shouting, rollicking twenties, and seemingly to mark the peak of the boom, the Harvard Alumni Association chose as its president financial magnate J. Pierpont Morgan, symbolizing in a way what was often attacked as the American "worship of business." Hotels bought full page ads in the Crimson, advertising their "exclusive Fall Dansants," warning the wavering sophomore that "the smart folk will attend," or that "you'll find the best crowd in the college there." Boston was the center of Harvard social life, and for many this social life was the center...
...welfare state" programs that wedged their way into the 1958 budget. His doubts broke through, almost by accident, when he made his famed remark last January that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Humphrey's prediction strongly influenced his business friends and encouraged a boom in G.O.P. conservatism; ultimately it led to a bipartisan economy binge in Congress that threatened not only the budget but the whole Eisenhower program...
...TURNPIKE BOOM is worrying Massachusetts. New 123-mile Massachusetts Turnpike got so much traffic on first Sunday that cars piled up for five miles at toll stations and exits...
...singing engagements in U.S. Army camps, picked up a smattering of English, and went on the nightclub circuit. There Photographer Tateyuki Nakamura spotted her, persuaded her to pose in black silk stockings and little else. The photograph, when it appeared in a magazine, was enough to start the Michiko boom...
...building boom in Massachusetts should provide a large number of undergraduates with profitable jobs this summer, Dustin M. Burke '52, director of the bureau of summer employment, said yesterday...