Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are forces in the world," said Communism's Nikita Khrushchev in his proud capital last week, "that have not given up the idea of war in the Middle East. But Turkey and the U.S. should reflect that war, once started, can spread, and once guns begin to boom and rockets begin to fly then it will be too late...
...TANKER BOOM will push U.S. shipyards to new peacetime record this year despite cut-rate foreign competition, post-Suez shipping slump. Domestic shipyards have 99 merchant vessels grossing 2,316,572 tons under construction or on order, v. 44 ships totaling 729,660 tons at this time last year. Of the total, 82 vessels (2,118,672 tons) are tankers...
...asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied Houde: "He is a little man, madame, a little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city in the world), Houde suddenly ("My doctor recommended . . .") backed out. Stronger than the doctor's advice. Montreal guessed, was a poll showing "little" Jean Drapeau, 41, running ahead...
Prime Essential. The underdeveloped countries were also concerned over the fact that the inflationary boom in industrial countries is soaking up most of the world's capital, while the huge new growth in world trade had developed mainly between advanced countries. No industrial nation denied the validity of this analysis, but to a great degree, they pointed out, it was the responsibility of the underdeveloped countries themselves...
...than they go down. "Wages in the American economy do not readily drop in contracting industries" because of union strength. Moreover, Slichter argues, when general business threatens to contract and drop prices, antirecession measures are applied by Government before falling prices lose all the ground gained in the last boom, giving a higher jumping-off point for the next rise...