Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running their assembly lines overtime, the 20 U.S. manufacturers of color TV are in the midst of a boom of major proportions. By year's end they will have sold 2,500,000 sets worth $1.4 billion, an 80% increase over last year. In seeking to meet this heavy demand, the $2.5 billion color TV industry is sending ripples of profits out to a host of satellite industries that provide it with cabinets, tubes, electronic components, dials, glass, antennas, even rare earth...
...that they were working together to produce a new, less expensive color tube-even though it may be years before the tube can be marketed. Even TV repairmen are acting bullish again. Reason: color sets are more complicated to keep in order than black and white. Aware of the boom elsewhere, some TV repairmen now charge $8 for a color call v. $5 for attending a sick black and white...
...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...chosen as choosing. Family-owned Fox has been dominated for 30 years by Mrs. Beatrice Fox Auerbach, who is now 78. Approached by several stores, she picked the May Co. partly because Morton May, like herself, is a third-generation merchant. The May Co. was founded in 1877 in boom town Leadville, Colo., by Grandfather David May, who turned from unsuccessful silver prospecting to selling other miners their overalls and red woolen underwear. Spreading east and west as far as Washington and Los Angeles, the store has traditionally allowed local managers broad autonomy. Mrs. Auerbach will join...
...biggest boom is in nylon, which is woven into tire cord and tennis nets, safety belts, inflatable domes and underwear. Italy's Snia Viscosa is spending $72 million on nylon expansion, has formed a traveling choir to promote its nylon-based Lilion fiber. Britain's Imperial Chemical and Courtaulds both had to ration nylon shipments to weavers last year, are spending more than $150 million to double their productive capacity. Germany's Glanzstoff and Farbenfabriken Bayer are also doubling their nylon output...