Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve days, the column lay ticking like a time bomb. Then last week, the Giants moved into New York for a two-game series with the Mets-and Boom!-the story exploded on the sports pages of every New York paper. Rumors seethed through the National League that Giants Owner Horace Stoneham was about to fire Dark for being a racist. Before the first Mets game, 35 newsmen crowded into the visitors' dressing room in Shea Stadium to hear Dark explain himself. "I was definitely misquoted on some things," he said, "and other statements were deformed...
Cognac & Coconuts. The diet-drink boom is taking place side by side with a major shift in U.S. tastes to more offbeat flavors and less sweet soft drinks. Soft drinkers can now choose from more than 300 different labels, flavored with everything from cognac (Dr Pepper's Pommac) to coconut milk (Yoo-Hoo's Milkette). Schweppes' Bitter Lemon now accounts for a third of Schweppes' sales in the U.S., though it has only been on the market one year. Even Elsie the Cow is out to milk the market. Borden has just put on the shelves...
...economic advance-thus enabling small business to meet much of the extra demand-than it is doing now. "This time," says William Butler, chief economist of the Chase Manhattan Bank, "small business is slower to catch up because of industry's extra capacity." But, adds Butler: "As the boom goes on, small business will feel it more and more." Even now, the expansive U.S. economy is generating new ski lifts, coffeehouses, dry-cleaning shops and motels at almost the same rate that it produces autos and chemicals for the U.S. consumer...
...plane has so far got exactly nowhere. Now the big argument seems to be whether it is really practicable in its proposed form. Aviation Consultant William Littlewood recently told a Washington aeronautical conference that ground dwellers cannot adjust to the SST's shattering sonic boom, suggested "careful routing" of the planes at a cost in time and fuel. Last week Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the Lockheed vice president who designed both the U-2 and the A11, said as he received an achievement award from the National Aviation Club: "I am very concerned about the sonic boom where...
Western Europe's economic boom shows few signs of letting up, but that has not prevented many European economists from worrying about where it all will end. The economists who work for the prestigious Twentieth Century Fund do not seem to share those worries. In a report issued last week, they predicted that Europe's unprecedented prosperity will continue to increase at least until...