Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached 14-from trampoline-jumping to eating a sandwich with sand in it-before the day was over. Astronaut John Glenn piled up favorable mention by bicycle riding, swimming, playing touch football and baseball, falling into the bay while water-skiing with Jackie, and barely ducking a crashing boom after he hesitated for a moment in carrying out the President's order to haul in the main sheet. After sundown, guests are mercifully allowed to fade slightly, and everyone is in bed by midnight. After all, next day is apt to be a hard day at the Kennedys...
Exports: Iron ore, palm kernels, diamonds, cocoa, coffee. Per capita income: $70. U.S. aid (1961): $600,000. Margai favors moderate African bloc, thwarted Red infiltration. Diamond boom brought prosperity. Nation needs foreign capital to raise living standards...
Five Days, Five Deaths. This worked well enough so long as the post-Suez crisis shipbuilding boom held up and eager purchasers were willing to make advance payment on ships, thereby assuring Schlieker a steady cash inflow. But lately, with a decline in demand, he has been obliged to agree to payment only after delivery. Result was that the cash collected by his shipyard dropped $14.5 million this year...
...Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes...
...British government. In a nation that survives by importing raw materials, turning them into manufactured goods and exporting them again, living standards can only be realistically improved by boosting productivity, which in Britain has grown at less than half the rate of its European trade rivals. An easy-money boom ("You never had it so good") led to dangerous inflation that threatened to price British goods out of world markets. Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd has had to clamp drastic restraints on wages (the "pay pause") and credit, thereby deeply alienating the traditionally Tory middle class. Though his harsh medicine was necessary...