Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shiny new plants in Shannon, Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Killarney ("Just like the Black Forest," says a West German industrialist who has built a factory there) have worked no economic miracle in Ireland to compare with Europe's boom. But industrial production has risen 20% in three years...
...housewife is squeamish about strangulation, there is a handful of books and writers that provide an adequately mixed bag of recipes for those of more modest ambitions. James Beard, author of everything from a basic cookbook to Cook It Outdoors, is a gifted milker of the cooking-boom...
...inflationary wage jumps (as much as 10% in France this year) held back exports, gave the Common Market a first-quarter trade deficit of $750 million, and brought about a much more competitive export situation between the Common Market, Britain and the U.S. Rising wages stimulated a consumer-goods boom that has kept the market growing despite a general slackening in capital goods investment. Common Market steel production, at 39 million tons in the first half, was the same as last year's first-half rate, but chemical production is rising by 10% and auto output 15%, should reach...
...fast and furious century, the boom lasted, producing a frontier society of bad men, high-priced low ladies, and sausage that sold for 3 drams of gold a link. But in Minas Gerais' old capital of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the wealth also brought Brazil's first real intellectual and artistic atmosphere, and its first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered...
...dared think up discothèques is Jean-Claude Merle, a Paris entrepreneur who opened a club called La Discothèque 14 years ago and is still riding the boom. When he began, he detested musicians ("They play for perhaps twelve minutes, then go to the bar and swill down drinks for half an hour"), but now he detests phonograph records with the cold fury that comes from marrying a machine. This week Merle will close down his discothèque for a month or two, and when he reopens, it will be with the help of a live...