Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was even a Home boom, though the patrician Foreign Secretary is as retiring as Hailsham is assertive, and is relatively little known to the public. The most logical candidate, on ability and experience, was the man who would fill Macmillan's shoes mean while: Rab Butler...
With Cola products now enjoying an unprecedented international boom, the industry's two giants are busily scrapping for a bigger share of the growing market. This week Coca-Cola begins a $53 million advertising campaign in which its classic "Pause That Refreshes" will give way to what Coke calls a "one-sight, one-sound, one-sell" approach based on the slogan that "Things Go Better with Coke." Fortnight ago at Pepsi-whose slogan is "For Those Who Think Young"-New President Donald Mclntosh Kendall, after only a month on the job, wielded a broom that swept out six vice...
...value of the cambiali now in circulation in Italy, but knowledgeable bankers estimate that their worth may equal the total value of Italy's currency. Cambiali have become so much a part of Italian life that Cinema Director Vittorio De Sica has just produced a movie -fittingly called // Boom-in which a young husband sells his right eye to get money to honor the cambiali he has signed to please his greedy wife...
...upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...
While big business surges to new profit records, the nation's 300,000 small manufacturers complain that the boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...