Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the sun-made boom, Florida is the fastest growing state east of the Rocky Mountains. Items: ¶ Since 1950, its population has grown from 2,800,000 to 4,000,000, advancing the state from 20th to 14th in population...
Florida, as any poolside statistician will confirm, is worth more every minute. Its present boom, five years old and picking up speed by the month, is no crazy-house of lot options. Governor Roy Collins says: "Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture. The ultimate potential of all three has hardly been sighted, but all three must grow and thrive together, or none can survive." The common denominator of the three is the equable and reliable Florida sun, a priceless asset in a nation whose countless blessings do not, in its more populous regions, include a kindly climate...
...Leaders. Brazil started early, and, thanks to booming São Paulo (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952), has the greatest number of distinguished buildings. But in recent years other countries have made giant strides. Historian Hitchcock labels Mexico's University City (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) "the most spectacular extra-urban architectural entity of the North American continent." In about five years, the building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels...
...boom has had its flaws?grandiose plans that take years to complete, antiquated methods, shoddy workmanship, poor maintenance. Though Latin America has so far produced some dozen architects of high reputation, none has as yet developed a style as effective as that of Niemeyer, now 48. But Latin America's "grand old men" of architecture are only in their 50s or younger, and a host of younger architects is coming up; the boom goes on and the future is bright...
Meanwhile, the uranium boom arrived...