Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throne of Skulls. Montevideans' cheerfulness reflected not only the coming of spring but their confident, year-round belief that democratic, Nebraska-sized Uruguay is the earth's closest imitation of paradise. Beneath the remaining layer of fat stored up during Uruguay's Korean war wool boom, the economy is ailing, but most Uruguayans remain complacently sure that the country is somehow bound to muddle through. That is why there are some thoughtful citizens who seriously believe that what Uruguay needs is a wakeup, shake-up type of crisis...
...economy growing too fast? The question is one that thoughtful U.S. businessmen are pondering with increasing concern. Instead of slowing down, as most businessmen had expected last spring, business has boomed higher and higher, picking up momentum every month. Warns Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser: "With industry operating at capacity, inflationary pressures are created which spill over into labor, new materials, prices and demands for all forms of goods and services." Adds David Rockefeller, executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have reached a point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast...
...Owen, who coached Olympic champion Tenley Albright, said that she expected an increased enrollment for her lessons because of "a boom in figure skating interest provided by Tenley's showing in the Olympics and her appearance on television last winter...
Commenting on the revival of figure skating in this country, Mrs. Owen said that she hoped it would be bigger than the 1936 boom when she was a national champion before finishing high school...
...Milwaukee, Seattle and New Orleans, the Sunday boom has spurred vigorous counteroffensives by merchants' associations, which resist Sunday selling as an unfair pressure on the businessman. Church groups have joined in the criticism. Decrying "this insidious and fast-growing practice," Cardinal Spellman last month urged New York's Roman Catholics to "help others who wittingly or unwittingly may be breaking God's Third Commandment," by refusing to do Sunday buying...