Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story plants in suburban areas, where land costs are low and the surroundings more congenial, Newark has lost almost 20,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 15 years. An expansion of headquarters facilities by banks and insurance companies located in Newark has partially offset this trend, but this tiny boom has not provided jobs for ghetto dwellers...
Inevitably, as French scientists and technicians have arrived, Kourou has mushroomed from a back-country village to a boom town of 5,000 people. Eventually the population will reach 50,000. In order to build launch pads, schools, power plant, sewer lines, dispensaries and 50 miles of paved road, laborers have already been brought in from Brazil, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Saint Lucia and so many surrounding places that 22 nationalities are now at work together...
Although a sonic boom can shatter windows miles below a jet, the Anglo-French partners maintain that tests have shown that their Concorde will not cause "danger to life, health or property." Even so, during the first two test hops last week, the roar of the plane's engines could be heard miles away. If its flights have to be rerouted to avoid populous areas or its engines throttled back to lower noise levels, Concorde's already precarious ability to fly the Atlantic will dwindle dangerously, and its attraction to airlines that travel mostly over land will...
Somewhat Stunned. In the past several years, collectors have discovered that a good many of these early designers not only produced objects that were intrinsically valuable but incorporated superb designs that have not yet been matched. The result has been a spectacular boom in the silver market that has left even its dealers somewhat stunned. In the past four years, they figure, the average price of silver pieces has approximately doubled...
...sponsors, anxious to upgrade the sloppy play and win new friends and publicity for their teams, started recruiting U.S. college stars. Though the leagues imposed a limit of two foreigners for each team, the Americans have dominated the play. The imports have not only helped bring about a basketball boom in Western Europe, but have also ended the lopsided superiority of teams from Iron Curtain countries. The New York Knicks' Bill Bradley, for instance, while studying at Oxford University three years ago, commuted to Italy to help Simmenthal upset teams from Moscow and Prague for the European Cup Championship...