Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...histrionics, neither side could really prick the apparent lack of interest on the part of the electorate in the issues that matter to the parties. For Labor, as Wilson thundered last week, the paramount issue is "the economic crisis which every expert expects to follow this election boom." For the Tories, it is the retention of British control over nuclear weapons-"the ticket to the top table" in world affairs, as Home...
Unlike past building booms, this one has jumped from bustling Oahu (the island on which Honolulu is located) to the rest of the archipelago. On Hawaii Island, largest in the group, a $2,000,000 shopping center will rise near Hilo and a 150-room Hilton hotel at Kailua-Kona. On Maui, work has begun on a seven-story, 100-room addition to the Wailuku Hotel. The building boom and the prospect of more tourists also aid other industries. Four new mattress factories have been opened, and Schlitz is about to build a 100,000-barrels-a-year brewery near...
...After he moved north from Sicily in 1947, he worked as a tax lawyer and accountant for such companies as Societa Generale Immobiliare and Snia Viscosa. In the process he noticed a simple but significant economic fact: while some countries were undergoing slumps, others were almost inevitably in a boom. Sindona reasoned that he could beat the economic cycle by founding firms in various countries, thus covering possible losses with almost certain profits elsewhere...
...lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed the inevitability of the SST-a telling argument to an audience that included many whose careers date back to the trimotor Ford...
...Every Room. Radio's renaissance, after a slump during the 1950s, is due largely to the boom in small transistor models, which accounted for two-thirds of 1963's sales of 24 million sets. House wives plant radios in almost every room, listen to them an average of three hours a day; teen-agers tote the transistors in their pockets. The rise of suburban-and long-distance auto-commuting-as well as the increase in the number of cars-has lifted the total of car radios from 9,000,000 in 1946 to 50 million today. The number...