Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom Backstop. Within a few years, Venezuela will be using part of its ore to make steel at home. An Italian combine is under contract with the Venezuelan government to build a $200 million, 421,500-ton-a-year steel mill near the mouth of the Caroni. Last week, a few miles up the Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial...
...midst of their country's roaring oil boom, thoughtful Venezuelans sometimes wonder what might happen to their economy if some adverse development-widespread utilization of atomic energy, perhaps, or big new oil finds in other countries-rubbed the bloom off the boom. Industrial growth based on abundant iron ore and the huge hydroelectric potential of the Caroni promises to put a second powerful prop under the economy, and make Venezuela's future more secure...
...four scattered states the Ike boom sent incumbent Republicans back to the Senate: Connecticut's Prescott Bush beat Congressman Thomas J. Dodd; Maryland's John Marshall Butler, elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle...
...mind which accepts inflation as the normal, natural way of life. "Inflation?" says one San Francisco banker. "Sure, we've got inflation, and we're getting used to it." The question: If everyone becomes "used to" inflation, who will recognize the time when creeping inflation becomes galloping, boom-toppling inflation...
...m.p.h. surge of fuel from the San Juan Basin was as momentous as the first whirring of dynamos at Grand Coulee Dam in 1941. Long hobbled by power shortages, the Northwest in another year will be tapping a gas supply equivalent to 15% of U.S. reserves, anticipates an industrial boom comparable to the South's postwar growth...