Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State, Governor Albert Rosellini ordered food-rationing cards for some 750,000 heads of families, to be used in the event of war. Milwaukee Real Estate Man Dick Bourgignon was in the midst of a land boom in two Wisconsin summer resorts where urban residents were buying up property to use as retreats from the target cities...
...second destructive influence, says Barzun, is the culture boom itself. "Feeling the old attachment to high Art," Barzun sees in the "very abundance and availability of the democratized arts the causes of a prompt dissolution...The powerful devices of mechanical reproduction and high pressure distribution to which we owe the cultural 'awakening' necessarily distort and thus destroy. All the new media make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting...
...Wagged His Tail (Continental). Once upon a time in Brooklyn there was a mean old slumlord (Peter Ustinov). Golly, was he mean. He raised the rent on any pretext, lowered the boom at the first late payment, embezzled the savings of his ignorant tenants, and screamed at them just to stay in abad humor. When beggars knocked at his door, he screwed up his face till he looked like a huge, ferocious dog, and snarled and barked to frighten them away...
Once the enfant terrible of European socialism, the Labor Party calmed down after World War II, ran the country complacently as a heavily subsidized, part-free, part-controlled boom economy. During the election campaign, with all major parties agreeing on foreign policy, there were no issues except a dutiful conservative complaint about inflation. No one bothered to make a serious fight against the anti-NATO, ban-the-bomb mavericks, which may explain how they managed to grab their two seats. If the elections accomplished nothing else, they brought excitement to the country's long becalmed politics...
...first place, says Father Zimmerman, various factors will probably slow down the explosion so that production can catch up with it. The increased longevity that is partially responsible for the boom will soon begin to taper off. And as agricultural societies become more industrial and modern, men and women will begin to marry later in life, thus taking considerable edge off their fertility. Such factors, Father Zimmerman optimistically opines, may trim the population rate of growth by as much...