Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom reached a new peak in the second quarter as the gross national product soared to a record annual rate of $408.5 billion. Making that heady estimate last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers noted a rise of $21 billion over the same period last year and $5.1 billion more than the booming first-quarter rate...
...continue this week in Manhattan. Despite the deadlock, the National Industrial Conference Board found one bright note: the settlement, when it comes, should produce a new fillip to the economy. The board recalled that the eight-week steel strike of 1952 "produced a strong, but relatively short-lived, boom" as manufacturers built up their inventories, and a strike of similar or less length in 1956 "could well produce the same results again. However unfortunate a steel strike may be on other grounds, most analysts agree that it would materially improve the outlook for business activity late in the second half...
...current budget of $68 million, or less than $1.25 for each of its self-invited guests. Conservationists argue that the figure is ridiculously low, and some have angrily contended that if sufficient funds are not appropriated, the parks should be closed. The service itself is hopefully trying to boom its fortunes with a campaign called "Mission 66." Its objective: an "adequately developed and staffed" National Park system by 1966, golden anniversary year of the founding of the Park Service...
...rock 'n' roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...
...spring, Dallas, Chicago and Boston stores found a summer fillip in June's warm weather and clear skies, were even starting to move such heavy appliances as fans, air conditioners and power lawn mowers. Denver's steady population growth kept both soft and hard goods at boom levels, while in the Southeast discount houses were invading traditional department-store markets, forcing prices down and sales up all around. Though established stores moaned that they lost money on big appliances, Atlanta's Rich's department store noted that July sales were about 10% higher than June...