Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck. Like all Ridder newspapers, Joseph's pair are run as if the others did not exist. The last San Jose newspaper crusade petered out ten years ago, after the city built the new civic center that its two dailies had plumped for. By then the boom was well under way, and about all Grandson Joseph had to do was let it boom...
Publisher Joe Ridder finds San Jose's growth enormously stimulating. "I've done everything to get the population here, and new industry too," he said last week, happily reflecting on the boom. As a journalist, he also feels challenged. What is his greatest problem? Joe Ridder knows the answer to that one. "Increase circulation," he says...
...office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor's first-quarter exports are up 17%. Because of increased mining activity, mainly in Canada, South America and Africa, export sales of the Denver Equipment Co., one of the leading U.S. makers of mining equipment, rose 45% in the first quarter above their year-ago level. The recent sale of 29 Boeing 727 medium-range jetliners to foreign airlines has reversed a three-year decline in U.S. aircraft exports...
...product is a powdery flaked glass that melts at 1,500° heat into the chief ingredient of porcelain enamel, the familiar coating on bathtubs, basins and ceramic tile. Since many appliances are also sprayed with or submerged in frit, Ferro is profiting not only from the U.S. appliance boom but from the rapidly expanding appliance market abroad. This week Ferro announced an 8% gain in first-quarter sales to $21 million; with 1963 sales that hit a record $80.7 million, the company expects to reach $115 million within five years...
...first rumor of the discovery, Texas Gulf stock on the New York Stock Exchange began rising, rocketed 14 points in ten days of trading to 41¼ by week's end. Mining stocks on the Toronto exchange joined in with their biggest speculative orgy since the uranium boom...