Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that is past had little significance to University treasurers, who sold the stock that had been willed to them by an alumnus who founded the company, and they sold out, incidentally, just before the biggest boom in paper neckwear of the last thirty years...
...boom was a result of naval officers' demands, and it broke near the war's end when cloth collars were made regulation for the Navy. (Annapolis cadets still wear detachable collars, but theirs must be of cotton, not cloth...
What spurred the steels was news of a huge tanker boom for U.S. shipyards. Everywhere, new orders were flooding in, old tankers going for record prices. When the Maritime Administration offered six mothballed T-2 tankers for sale last week, it got 240 bids from 44 bidders, some offering as much as $2,456,525 for ships that originally cost an average $3,000,000 to build during World War II, were worth less than $1,000,000 apiece until war broke out in the Middle East. In Chester, Pa., Sun Shipbuilding Corp. signed orders...
CANADA INVESTMENT BOOM is pushing Canadian dollar to highest price in four years-$1.04 in U.S. currency. Because of Middle East war scare, British and European investors are selling out at home, pouring cash into Canada...
CARIBBEAN TRAVEL BOOM will send 1,250,000 tourists to West Indies this winter, up 48% from 1951. Area's dollar income from tourists this season will exceed $162 million...