Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castles & Cottages. Why the summer boom? Bermuda has had it for years, and recognizes no real "season." Until recently, however, tourists rarely ventured farther south for the summer...
...sensitive even to minor tremors. Last week Walter Heller described the economy's growth as "solid but moderate," reflecting some Administration disappointment that the gross national product in the second quarter grew by only $7 billion, instead of an expected $10 billion, to $579 billion. "This is no boom," he said...
...Fire. Italian refrigerator makers have become so efficient that last year they grabbed 22.5% of refrigerator sales in France, which quickly forgot the togetherness of the Common Market and threw up temporary tariff walls. Such firms as Fiat, Zanussi, Zoppas and Indesit have cashed in on the ice-cube boom by turning to making refrigerators, but none of them have been able to match the success of the Ignis Co., which has risen from obscurity to become Italy's biggest refrigerator producer. With sales of $65 million (a third from exports), Ignis now accounts for 34% of all refrigerator...
...Western Europe generally, the birth rate has slowly but steadily declined over the past decade, possibly because of postwar uneasiness about the future, the shortage of new housing that continues despite the economic boom, and the decision of newlyweds to space the arrival of children. The decline is even more rapid in the Communist countries, especially Poland and Yugoslavia, where the rate has dropped from 28 to 22 per 1,000 in the same period, partly because Communist governments sanction legal abortions. Thus, ironically, while Asia, Africa and South America still fear the population explosion, Europe fears the opposite...
Since the days when Hitler opted for guns rather than butter, West Germany has known near-starvation, austerity and, for the past decade, such heady abundance that today it has become the Adipose Society. Following the early '50s, when the postwar boom set off what Germans call the Edelfresswelle, the gorgeous gobbling wave, buttocks and bosoms have expanded even more rapidly than the economy, and doctors have recognized two universal ailments: Doppelkinnepidemie, double-chin epidemic, and Hängebauch, or bellyhang. The majority of Germans, from newborn babes to Cabinet ministers, are fatter today than at any other time...