Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courage of the assorted millions who fought for its freedoms. And in respect for all those who died in that service, the Unknowns were given burial services by three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant and Hebrew by the Jew. After the boom of a final 21-gun salute, and the rattle of three volleys of rifle fire, the haunting call of Taps echoed across Arlington's markers and across the Potomac as the last solemn note of a day of communion among patriots...
Rhapsody in Riches. But Alaska's promise sends statehooders into rhapsody. The oil boom, centered in the Kenai Peninsula, has brought the big U.S. oil companies hurrying north to drill the place full of holes-even though drilling a well there costs almost three times as much as it does at home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp...
...Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
...recession has taught many a U.S. company one important fact: the boom had larded corporate muscle with fat. Now, in working off the fat, businessmen are finding some of the benefits of adversity. These go far beyond merely trimming payrolls and such obvious economies as light, telephone and office-supply bills. Each day the recession continues, business must look harder at its policies, products, production, and-most of all-sales executive talent. "In a boom, it's hard to pick smart young executives," said one corporate boss. "Everyone looks good because the business comes in anyway...
Hoadley called the recession "an interim" between the great boom that ended last summer and another great boom that he expects will begin in the early 1960s. "It is likely to be difficult," he said, "to come out of this very rapidly." His reasons: 1) the artificial backlog of pent-up postwar demand has been satisfied; 2) the population boom is over for at least five years because of the low Depression-years' birth rate; 3) expenditures for new plants and equipment are likely to continue downward because of the nation's already large productive capacity; 4) consumer...