Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, many problems remain as a heritage from the past, but the big cities are riding the crest of a renaissance that has turned their eyes determinedly toward a better future. The most dramatic sign of the renaissance is the biggest building boom in metropolitan history. Building permits totaling nearly $10 billion were issued in 1961, with each permit a vote for the city's future...
...believe something new is happening. The only thing that happened is that they opened their windows." Even with the windows closed the year-round, the noise and nerve-numbing will continue-and get worse with the advent of supersonic commercial traffic. Nothing can be done to stop a sonic boom,* though the sound can be attenuated somewhat by flying at altitudes higher than...
...biggest boom yet of the supersonic age hit only last week, when a four-jet B58 Hustler streaked nonstop from Los Angeles to New York and back in a record-smashing 4 hr. 42 min., at an overall average of 1,044.3 m.p.h...
Also smashed: countless windows and bric-a-brac, shattered by the continuous sonic boom that the plane created. One Air Force officer had predicted before the flight: "This ought to be good for an air speed of 1,300 m.p.h. and a ground speed of 13,000 broken windows...
...John F. Kennedy pointed with pride last week to the latest decrease in the unemployment rate (see THE NATION), U.S. economists puzzled over some employment statistics that the President failed to mention. For years, the economists have predicted that because of the baby boom of the 1940s, the number of Americans looking for jobs would swell to unmanageable proportions in the 1960s...