Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Edmonton's fast-climbing skyline. Riding a surge of prosperity that began when U.S. servicemen poured north in World War II to man the land route to Alaska and the air route to the Soviet Union, the city tapped a far richer bonanza in the oil boom that blew in ten years ago and gets bigger every year...
...boosters counted 13 major building projects started in 1956 alone. Among them: a $6,000,000 federal office building, two new $1,000,000 banks, a $2,000,000 office building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough to keep up with the demand. It takes a year to get a new telephone. But, grins Mayor Hawrelak...
...paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks). In the U.S. there have been previous calypso flurries, including Rum and Coca-Cola in 1945, but the real boom was drummed in by Folk Singer Harry Belafonte, whose current album, Calypso, is one of the biggest selling LPs in RCA Victor history. In a velvety voice he sings Day 0 and Jamaica Farewell. (They are not really calypso, but no one seems to care...
...company. The Pru is the world's biggest private holder of home mortgages (500,000), one of the biggest financers of huge skyscrapers (Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Cincinnati's Terrace Hilton Hotel), a strong backer of the new shopping-center boom. It supplied $8,000,000 for Minneapolis' new Southdale Center and $100 million for Los Angeles' Lakewood shopping center and for more than 7,500 houses in a new development surrounding the center. In every U.S. activity there is Pru money, from cattle and cotton to guided-missile...
...founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor...