Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Signs & Portents. Signs of the boom are apparent everywhere. On what used to be wasteland at the edge of Mexico City, workmen recently planted 10,000 lampposts along the street network of a big new housing development. One of Latin America's biggest medical centers is rising on 33 acres of downtown land-and it is only one of 6,000 new buildings, many of them spectacularly clad in plate glass or bright-colored masonry, that are going up yearly in the capital...
Ultimate Challenge. Perhaps the most striking single transformation wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
...lines (because its lightly traveled track traverses largely underpopulated areas), is tailor-made for his touch. Extending from Chicago west to Omaha and northwest to Puget Sound, it is twelfth on the list of moneymakers; its 1955 net was $9,532,282. But Lannan is betting on a Northwest boom to boom the Milwaukee...
...electric-power capacity. The valley's desert was turning green with crops; plumes of smoke from new plants rose in the air. With 80% of India's coal, 98% of its iron ore, and all of its copper ore, the Damodar Valley was beginning to boom...
SOUTHERN PAPER BOOM is luring Hudson Pulp & Paper Corp. into newsprint production in Florida. The New York kraft maker will build a $25 million plant, has already started negotiation with Southern publishers for sale of its 120,000-ton annual output. Bowater Paper Corp. and International Paper Co., the South's biggest papermakers, also are expanding newsprint production...