Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurdles in his path toward a third nomination. Most immediate hurdles: 1) prejudice against a two-time loser; 2) Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who has been doing prodigious spadework of his own in preparation for a presidential run. Stevensonites are convinced that the money for the Kennedy boom is not Jack's but father Joe's. And they smile indulgently at the Catholic-can-win surveys, implying broadly that Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy still...
Jordan postulated that applications will "inevitably double in the next three or four years." He noted that the babies of the war boom years have not yet reached college...
KENT SALES BOOM is puffing up P. Lorillard Co. earnings so fast that Wall Streeters guess earnings may be as high as $2 a share this quarter v. 42? in fourth quarter of 1956 and $1.02 in this year's third quarter...
...ahead of the 1956 peak. Altogether, 8,500,000 to 9,000,000 outstaters are planning to flock to Florida in the next twelve months-about 1,000,000 more than in the past year. To house the horde, the sun-blessed state is basking in her greatest building boom. In Miami alone, $75 million is going into new tourist facilities, including four new luxury hotels, nine Cadillac-class motels and 59 apartment buildings...
...spectacular as it is, the tourist boom is just a part-the smaller part-of the statewide business buildup. This year Florida manufacturing will outshine Florida tourism as the No. 1 dollar earner by an estimated $1.5 billion to $1.3 billion. Between the two, Florida's investment in new construction will top $1 billion, the sixth straight yearly record. In the past two years, more than 1,000 manufacturers have built new plants or made major expansions, boosting Florida's manufacturing payroll by 8% v. the national gain...