Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate of 30,000 a year. The gracious belle of the old South has become the nation's newest boom town and managed to turn the trick without losing her poise or showing an ankle...
...Japan's postwar boom quickened a new national interest in business and financial affairs, and Nikkei at last began to grow. On the sound premise that politics and business are inseparable, Naoji Yorozu, 60, who joined the staff in 1927 and became president in 1956, improved the paper's political coverage−with such success that it is today among the best in Japan. The paper sorted out a recent Cabinet reshuffle with such concise and almost clairvoyant accuracy that it was able to name the next Foreign Minister before any other Tokyo paper...
...took turns showing their sterns to one another in the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise. Six races were evenly divided, Nefertiti, Weatherly and Easterner each winning twice. Gretel, Sir Frank Packer's Australian challenger, suffered a minor but quickly repaired embarrassment when she snapped her boom on the first...
...consumer demand from World War II and the Korean war; but once the demand was satisfied, the need for goods slacked off, and 15% of the nation's productive capacity lies idle. Says one top Commerce Department economist: " We haven't used our capacity fully since the boom...
...many bowling centers have been started that Brunswick and AMF, which between them manufacture almost all of the nation's automatic pin setters, are now feeling the pinch. While the bowling boom of the late 1950s helped triple Brunswick's sales to $422.3 million in 1961, and helped double AMF's sales to $516.5 million, sales have fallen off this year. So has the value of their stocks, long favorites of Wall Street, which are now down to less than one-third of their 1961 highs...