Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Machine-tool makers say their business is the "first to feel a recession, the last to recover." Back in January 1956-when the rest of the U.S. economy was still going up-machine-tool orders began skidding from their boom level of $125 million a month. Last week signs appeared that they were on the upturn again...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
...divorce, National Newspaper Syndicate kept custody of Buck Rogers himself, who was created 29 years ago by Dille's father and taken over by Yager alone only in 1948. Dille will continue to peddle Buck's 25th century adventures to the post-Sputnik boom market of 154 U.S. dailies (TIME, Feb. 24). The new artist who will learn to live with President Dille's blue pencil: Murphy Anderson, longtime space-fiction cartoonist...
...once again Wall Street was busy looking ahead instead of backwards. With steady rises in most important groups, the stock market climbed another 5.17 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to new high ground for the year at 474.77, just a little better than midway between the boom-time high and the recession...
...every company that slims down its operation, another discovers new ways of doing things that should have been in effect for years but were overlooked during the boom. San Francisco paint manufacturer W. P. Fuller & Co. has its first full-scale marketing division, which means, says one executive wryly, that "we now have sales planning instead of just 'Hip, Hip, Hooray, let's get out and sell...