Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve Atlas missile launching pads being dug near Roswell, N.Mex.-ironworkers began removing the steel outriggers, which stabilized an unmanned Lorain crane poised near the edge of the 172-ft. hole. The huge crane rolled through a wooden railing, toppled over backwards. Then, while crews watched helplessly, the boom toppled and the crane slid over the silo's lip. It hurtled downward, brushed workmen and scaffolding off the sides of the hole, crashed in flames at the bottom, killing a total of six and injuring...
...Smith, vice president and chief economist of the F. W. Dodge Corp., addressing the Joint Economic Committee. "During the postwar years," said Smith, "housing has tended to behave in a contra-cyclical manner. That is, it has done well in recession, and has often fallen off in times of boom. There is some evidence that the situation is changing...
...jobless are being kept afloat by savings, city welfare benefits, church charities, veterans' pensions, railroad retirement checks and social security. Queried by TIME correspondents, employment experts around the country last week were virtually unanimous in predicting that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. Even if a boom comes soon, says the Labor Department, unemployment will roll along a high plateau...
...1950s, U.S. college students were deemed to be a "silent generation" of "apathetes" who burrowed in "privatism" like gophers with tired blood. Looking at their "closed, watchful" faces, one professor howled: "My God, feel something! Get enthusiastic about something, plunge, go boom, look alive...
Last year they went boom. Fueled by the spark of Southern Negro sit-in strikers, Northern students picketed Woolworth stores and "marched" on Washington. Others denounced everything from dull teaching and nuclear testing to compulsory R.O.T.C. and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Last fall both presidential candidates drew enormous crowds of students. For ex-gophers, the trend is "involvementism," and the most startling part of it is a sharp turn to the political right. As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: "The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power-principles...