Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, kept producing and selling Ramblers apace. ¶ Steel production, though somewhat behind the forecasts, set a 19-month high with 76.9% of rated capacity and 2,178,000 tons' actual production. This week's schedule: a jump to 79.7% and the best level since the boom-time days back in April...
...made any easier by the Federal Reserve Board. The F R B has tried to ease credit to help the recovery without making it so easy that the boom gets out of hand and brings another puff of inflation. Although both Anderson and the F R B cooperate closely to try to keep the economy stable, they necessarily work at cross-purposes. If the F R B eases credit enough to stop the interest rise, it makes Anderson's job easier. But if this happens, it makes its own job of controlling inflation harder...
Keys to the U.S.'s ski boom were the rope tow and its more advanced counterpart, the chair lift. The first rope tow, a jury rig powered by a truck engine, was installed at Woodstock, Vt. in 1934, the first chair lift at Sun Valley, Idaho in 1937. Until then a skier had to be young and determined enough to rise at dawn, spend most of the day trudging up the side of a mountain for the sake of one or two swift descents. The tow made skiing a downhill...
Snow Fever. Resort owners are convinced that the boom is still young, and are pushing ahead with expansion plans, undismayed by the uncertainties inherent in snow itself-not enough of it in the East, where slopes must be closely tended to preserve what falls, often too much of it in the West, where gun crews must shoot down avalanches to ensure safety and jumbo storms can seal off an area for days. Vermont's Mt. Snow opened the first outdoor swimming pool at an Eastern ski resort. California's plush new $1,750,000 inn at Mammoth Mountain...
...inevitable, since Cushing owned 52% of the stock, his friends another 46%. After an audit showed nothing legally wrong, Cushing replaced Poulsen as president of Squaw Valley Development. Today, a bitter Poulsen still controls choice homesites in the valley (and stands to become a millionaire with the land boom caused by Cushing's getting the Olympics), but Cushing and the corporation have exclusive ski rights, since they possess the only lift permit allotted to the area by the U.S. Forest Service...