Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the year 1960, a round $1 billion has been poured into new churches, accounting for 13.2% of all public buildings put up in the U.S. The church boom has attracted some of the best U.S. architects, and led them to produce buildings that are often adventuresome in structure and forthright in their use of materials. They are buildings that address themselves, with varying degrees of success, to growing community demands and to changing liturgical customs...
...sales trail 1959 by only 1%, and, spared last week's snows, Chicago expects holiday buying to put merchants over the top for the year. Chicago's big Discounter Sol Polk expects Polk Brothers sales to be up 5% for the season and year, is doing a boom business in aluminum Christmas trees and-despite the lack of heavy snow-home snowplows. More than 1,000 plows priced from $129 to $169 have already been sold v. only 100 at this time last year. Polk thinks the home snowplow is beginning to compete with the foreign...
Exports are being helped by the elimination of barriers abroad against dollar imports. Equally important, businessmen can now expect long-term markets not tied to boom-or-bust fluctuations. In 1960 a large part of U.S. sales to Europe were in finished consumer goods-bought to satisfy the European's growing taste for a higher standard of living. "For the first time in decades," says Secretary of Commerce Frederick Mueller, "there is discretionary buying in Europe. Even if the industrial activity in Europe lessens slightly, it should not greatly affect our opportunities to sell there...
...tapes. It jumped into the wrappings business in 1927 with Ribbonette, a fast-selling cotton ribbon that curled easily when drawn over a sharp edge. In 1939 it began sending its "Tie-Tie" girls to department stores to conduct gift wrapping schools. After World War II, sales began to boom, will reach an estimated $15 million in gift wrapping sales this year. With the shift to department-store wrapping for the customer, the company this year began leasing machines to stores that mass-produce jewel-shaped bows. For next year it has perfected a machine that will tie sunburst bows...
Then in 1955 he came across the 500-acre tract in Rondonia, an overgrown remainder of a busted boom in wild, natural rubber. "I wanted that land so bad my head boiled over" he recalls. He got it on time payments for a price estimated at less than 25? an acre, left his wife and three sons in São Paulo and moved in to make something...