Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boiling, Writers Salomon and Richard Hanser lost or overlooked some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...
...week were the shares of U.S. shipbuilders. New York Shipbuilding Corp. jumped from 36 to 54⅞ in two trading days; Newport News closed the week at 79¼, or 29¼ points above its 1956 low. American Ship Building rose from 97¾ to 102. The greatest shipbuilding boom in the world's peacetime history had finally reached...
Long before Nasser seized the Suez Canal, the boom had started abroad in anticipation of a huge increase in the free world's oil consumption-and of possible trouble when Egypt could legally take over the canal in 1968. Today, more than 1,500 steamships and motorships, totaling 7,500,000 gross tons, are being built around the world. Great Britain, leader in the field, is constructing more than 2,000,000 gross tons, cannot promise deliveries on new orders until 1962. France is building 73 tankers and dry-cargo ships totaling 465,462 gross tons. This month...
...same naval predilection was responsible for the World War II boom, and since Harvard was then a training school for cadets, Snow recalls a stream of them coming in for paper collars. But the NROTC boys have not carried the salty tradition forward, and Snow wonders "if anyone in all of Harvard still wears the old fashioned neckband style shirt and detachable collar. He hopefully suspects that "some of the old professors might," but then turns realistic and doubts even that...
...future, Snow is not terribly optimistic. Reversible will be ready for any boom, but it is not exactly expanding production facilities...