Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the proportions of Eshkol's victory, it brought Israel no more than a brief period of political peace. Hard after the elections came the first signs that the economic boom was ending. At first, Eshkol was in full control, correctly arguing that Israel would simply have to learn to live within its means. But then he made the mistake of bowing to labor demands for a general wage increase, which could only contribute to the inflation he professed to oppose. He made other mistakes as well. Driven to distraction by the increase in border terrorism, he lunged out wildly...
Calculating the potential market for the SST with conservative care, the FAA figured that sonic-boom problems would limit the aircraft to routes over oceans and sparsely populated areas. On that basis, it predicted sales of 500 planes, at $40 million each, by 1990. By the time the first SST is delivered to an airline in late 1974, the cost of building two prototypes, production facilities and parts inventories will total some $4.5 billion, including $3.43 billion at Boeing, which is assembling the airframe, and $1.07 billion at engine-building...
...postwar housing boom, Builder William Jaird Levitt's 17,000-house Levittowns-on Long Island and in Pennsylvania-came to symbolize an era of mass-produced, look-alike homes. Though they made Levitt & Sons the nation's largest home builders, the Levittowns were sneered at by esthetes, spoofed by cartoonists, massively aped by other builders. His old image lingers on, but Levitt, now 60, has stayed at the top of the $25 billion industry by changing his whole approach to housing...
Although we did it well, it is not us. Too ticky-tacky and rah-tata-ta. We are more clang, zip, boom. I think we're heavier--at least we're louder...
...created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control, Expo masterminds even built a 6,693-ft. ice boom to keep thundering tons of springtime floes from smashing into the new islands...