Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bicycles begun with the Middle East. Steel production rose from 1,800,000 tons in 1959 to 2,200,000 tons last year, enabling India to export about 150,000 tons of pig iron and steel. And there is no indication that India's modest boom will let up. For 30 miles along the road linking Delhi with the Taj Mahal in Agra, for example, the empty roadside space has been snapped up as building sites for new factories and industrial plants...
...tries to anticipate how his Black Hawk defensemen will hit the attackers so he can guess who will wind up on the firing line. Once he picks out the potential shooter, Hall quickly recalls the "book" on that player's strengths and weaknesses; e.g., Montreal's Boom Boom Geoffrion is likely to aim a long shot at the right side...
...during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail a pea pod in a porringer...
...INTEREST RATES. The Fed was right in using its tools to restrict credit during incipient inflation, loosen it later. Dillon thus failed to back up a Kennedy campaign charge that the Fed pinched off the boom with high interest rates...
...reconnaissance, liaison and ambulance planes. They became known to G.I.s as "flying Jeeps" and to the Germans as "hell raisers" because bombing raids often followed their reconnaissance flights. Piper, like other small-plane makers, was shoved into the red after the war by the bust of the small-plane boom, but soon bounced back...