Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing what comes naturally, warned Kentucky's Oswald, has resulted in the population boom that inflames "the ills of mankind." Was that a gentle recommendation of birth control? Maybe so, but Psychiatrist Frank Ayd, the father of twelve children, told graduates of Roman Catholic Xavier University in Cincinnati that the choice is between sacrificial abstinence and the "almost Hitlerian precept" of artificial contraception...
...regional boom is broadly based. Last year the Southwest's industrial output rose 5%, construction 11%-both to alltime records. Texas has become the nation's leading producer of basic chemicals, and its $5 billion petrochemical industry is a bigger business than oil refining...
Mining in Canada seems to follow a pattern of seven years of fat, seven years of lean. The great uranium boom pumped $10 billion into the Canadian economy between 1950 and 1957, then fizzled. Now, after seven fairly slender years, a new mining rush is on. Some 900 companies are drilling for metals and oil from New Brunswick to British Columbia...
...sanctions so far have neither defused the boom of Africa's richest nation nor diminished its role as a prime salesman to the world. Since the boy cott began four years ago, British and U.S. investment alone in South Africa has risen 50% to $3.7 billion, South Africa's gross national product has in creased 20% to $8.6 billion, and the Rand Daily Mail's stock market index has nearly quadrupled. With exports of products as varied as wheat and mining machinery running at a record $1.5 billion rate, South Africa boasts an inter national payments surplus...
...corruption of human values under stress, except that the beast in Actress Strasberg is patently far too tame. Cast as a bossy, driving turn-cat, she somehow remains pensive and soulful-eyed, falls predictably in love with a handsome P.W., and dies heroically just as Soviet guns begin to boom beyond the surrounding hills...