Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mexico's government, presiding happily over a two-year-old boom, had fresh facts last week to justify bullish predictions for the years ahead. Items...
...politics, carried both Talmadges to the governor's mansion. As governor, Herman inherited and refined his father's credo: keep down the cities, hold the Negro to his proper place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces the farmer, even Republicans are running candidates. Against this gathering avalanche Herman intends to maintain the Bible...
...sseldorf the nation's No. 1 securities market is partly its position as capital of West Germany's biggest and most prosperous state, ringed by expanding coal and steel industries in the Rhine-Ruhr area. But mainly Düsseldorf-and its sister exchanges-owe the new boom to the insistent demands of West Germany's industry for new expansion capital...
France is in even worse shape economically. Though France is enjoying an industrial boom, with production up 31% since 1953 v. 28% for West Germany, prices and wages have soared twice as fast. Thus, with demand outstripping supply, imports have climbed so high that France's trade balance showed a $575 million deficit during the first seven months of 1956 v. $49 million surplus last year. Financiers argue that France should devalue its franc (officially 350 to the dollar, actually 405 and up) to boost exports, and take drastic steps to clean economic house. But France...
Climbing Classics. The boom has spread to all types of records, even rolled through the hot weather when sales usually slump. In 26 weeks this year, Columbia's album of the score from Broadway's My Fair Lady (TIME, June 25) sold more than 653,000 copies, about half as many as the alltime champion, Columbia's South Pacific, has sold since 1949. Also climbing high in the sale of classical recordings, traditionally 25% of the market, and specialty albums, e.g., sports, plays, literary readings, politics. Last month ABC-Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower...