Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Albert T. Sommers, director of economic research for the National Industrial Conference Board, said that 1962 looks "like a year of moderate growth in an admittedly competitive environment." He suggested a probable leveling-out of the economy as a whole: "Both boom and recession, it seems to me, are now less likely to occur, and when they occur, they are likely to be less pronounced...
...cheap but faithful replicas of their original work. Except in artists' circles, Senefelder's stones have long since disappeared. But in print shops, those gloomy caverns of the publishing world where paper is imprinted with ink, the process he invented 166 years ago is enjoying a new boom...
...three. It is the thunderclap of a sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft, and the nerve-ragging whine and roar of jetliners as they take off and land. Together they add up to a sore domestic problem that will increase in quantum jumps in the years ahead...
Sonics and Suits. This possibility had not occurred to the majority of groundlings in the U.S. until last week, when a Supreme Court decision lowered a sonic boom of its own. Ruled the court in a 7-2 decision: local airport authorities are liable for damages if aircraft noise and vibration make life miserable for homeowners who live near an airport...
...nuclear instruments, equipment and materials on the open market. No scientific brilliance, only routine competence, is necessary to turn these readily available resources into practical bomb-making technology. According to one U.S. atom expert, a task force of 20 Ph.D.s and about 300 engineers could make something go boom...