Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico, for all its real advances, is still largely an agricultural nation; farming provides work for nearly half its 37 million population. In recent years, the farmers have not been able to match the country's industrial boom...
...heir-apparent is still avuncular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, architect of the West German economic boom, and the most popular choice among West German voters. One Cabinet minister guesses that Erhard also commands the loyalty of 60% of C.D.U. politicians. But Erhard still has one formidable enemy-der Alte himself who has conducted a petulant feud with paunchy "Uncle Ludwig." Adenauer's influence is still great, and last week the field was still wide open with half a dozen other candidates, led by Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, to be considered. Whom would der Alte prefer...
...textile industry has long depended on large machines for knitting such small items as stockings and sweaters, but the current boom in skin-tight stretch clothes has hatched far more ambitious devices...
...Sherman Antitrust Act by changing the Norris-La Guardia law, which now exempts labor unions from the provisions of the Sherman Act. It is going to take some doing, but this little piece of harness would protect the public, protect the worker, and lead to the greatest business boom in history...
Security First. Today's thriving trade is the outgrowth of a business that has had its greatest boom during the man-short years following World War II. The main reason for its growth, says an official in Bonn's family ministry, is that "there is a lack of real social life in West Germany today-we have become a little selfish and don't concern ourselves much with our fellow men." Known by the unromantic name of Ehlanbahnunsgewerbe -literally, the marriage-initiating business-it has inevitably attracted many brokers less interested in mating souls than coining Deutsche...