Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Phoenix is leading Arizona into a boom which, if measured by statistics, skyline and traffic, seems much like the growth pattern that created such major cities as Detroit and sprawling Los Angeles. In fact the boom takes on a difference in quality and character from the backdrop of open land, air and sky that once made up the wildest Old West...
...Phoenix and Tucson (pop. 182,500) reach out into the open spaces with acres of factories, airports, suburbs, housing developments and tourist havens, the open spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed...
...Boom. Foreshadowed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508, contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath...
...continued its decline, businessmen lost some of their exuberance about the course of the economy. The new mood was not based on the potential of the world's most powerful economy, or even on its present performance. It was an inevitable part of the psychology of the U.S. boom: too much good news, like too much rich food, can produce a vague, queasy dyspepsia...
...BOOM IN SPEECHMAKING...