Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the test began one morning last month, when an F-104 jet from nearby Tinker Air Force Base sonic-boomed over the city, the FAA has been: haled into federal court on two injunction suits, one filed by Plumber Woodrow Bussey, who finally fled to Arizona "for the duration"; named in 75 damage claims totaling $10,067; the recipient of a death threat against national FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby; deluged with more than 4,300 phone calls. Added to these was a peculiar complaint from the owner of a general store in nearby Seward, Okla. Lately, it seems...
...everyone in Oklahoma City wanted to ban the boom. One who does not is Stanley Draper Sr., managing director of the Chamber of Commerce...
Draper hopes that supersonic transports will make the city a world trade center, and last week was in Nigeria trying to drum up business. Other boom boomers are the city's two newspapers, which have printed no fewer than eleven editorials rapping citizens for grousing about the noise, and Mayor Wilkes, who helped block a move by the city council to condemn the test. And there are several working girls who complained, after bad weather had canceled a 7 a.m. boom one day, that they had overslept...
Encouraged by their success in raising the number of U.S. stockholders from 7 million to 17 million in a decade, U.S. businessmen and brokers are looking to Europe for the next big boom in American stocks. Brokerage houses are rapidly expanding their networks on the Continent and providing new and faster quotation services. More and more American companies are seeking listings on foreign exchanges as a way of attracting European investors. Last week Litton Industries, California's fast-growing electronics complex, began trading on the Zurich Exchange, bringing to more than 250 the number of New York Stock Exchange...
Tempting Models. Appliance makers benefit from the same factors that have created the unexpectedly prolonged boom in the auto industry: record rates of personal income and housing construction, the nation's desire to trade up to fancier models, and a strong replacement market. The two-car family increasingly has its counterpart in the multi-appliance family. Well over 1,500,000 households now are cooled by more than one air conditioner, and about 11 million families have a big TV set in the living room and portables scattered around the house. More than half...