Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further, 1954 was not a boom year. The period was termed even by the Republicans to be one of "rolling readjustment" caused, some say, by the sharp decline in government expenditures of almost $7 billion. Government expenditures fell from $74.3 billion (1953) to $67.8 billion in 1954. Mr. Norris says that government expenditures total $75 billion. If he insists upon using this approach to present his political views he should at least present the correct statistics...
...also questioned the validity of a "Shakespeare boom" in this country. The fact that there were only 286,000 spectators at 22 Shakespearian plays offered in 1955 all over the country could hardly be termed a "boom", Harbage said...
...capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months was up 30% from last year, and still rising. The boom is wonderful while it lasts-and it shows every sign of lasting for a while...
...over Manhattan Island the office-building boom (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953) is going as strong as ever. In the last nine years 61 structures with 14,182,000 rentable sq. ft. of office space have gone up; 14 more are scheduled for 1956-57 completion ; another 15 have filed plans. Thus, by the end of next year, the postwar boom will have added more than 26 million sq. ft. of office space to the existing 100 million, an increase greater than the combined total office space in any other city of the world, save Chicago...
...rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history. As one rhapsodic Texan put it: "A shining strand linking together the jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gull...