Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has never brought itself to deal with Britain's hectic inflationary boom as sternly as its danger demanded. Gratified by the boom, relieved to be free of austerity, taking credit for the prosperity, the Tories have hesitated to air their anxieties too loudly. "This is the government that whispered 'Wolf!'" said one London wit. But last week, in the midst of London's gayest and most expensive social season since the war, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan cried it aloud...
...wages rise with them, said Macmillan. But Britain is an exporting nation whose prices must compete in a world market. "We must export to live at all. Fifty million of us there are, living on a rock-and living better than almost any country in the world. The world boom will continue. Other countries will be forging ahead. But we shall have priced ourselves out of the market by our own folly. Our exporters, masters and men, will be out of work . . . With falling exports we should not have enough money to buy both the food and raw materials...
...Boom-Bah! A fortnight ago, nearly 31 years and some 7,000 miles from Princeton, 18 college boys in their mid-50s, headed by Princeton's head football coach and Class of '25 President Charles Caldwell, got out of a plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. With this orange-jacketed contingent were 13 wives, a departed User's widow, two classmates' sons. Instead of traveling farthest to his class's 1956 reunion, Seaweed Osawa, Mohammed-like, had persuaded part of the reunion to come to him. He had sent invitations to more than...
This year speculators who gambled on rising copper prices made even fatter killings than they had in the uranium boom a year ago. New Jaculet, one copper prospect that sold for as little as 13? last year, soared to $2.15 in April. In twelve months Opemiska went from $3.75 to $19.50; Consolidated Halliwell shot from 44? to $3.75 this year. Brokers, also, have made record profits this year-and, like all Canadians, pay no capital-gains taxes on their market profits...
...Toronto Street. While Canada's ore-rich economy has surged irrepressibly ahead since World War II, the boom might have bypassed Bay Street if President Trebilcock had never ventured, via the World, into a financial career. After working up to business editor, he quit to study mining law, later hung his shingle over a tent at Red Lake camp in Ontario's 1925 gold rush. On his return to Toronto, Trebilcock was appointed counsel to the old Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Canada's key mining market; in 1934 he worked out a merger with its rival...