Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bust to Boom. Gratifying as the Snoqualmie story was, it was nothing new to the university's Community Development Bureau. Founded in 1950 under the direction of crusading Community Planner...
Anacortes, a Puget Sound town with a boom-and-bust history, was busting all over in 1953, with 1,800 of its 6,700 residents on or asking for relief. Then two major oil companies opened big refineries in the area, and Anacortes was suddenly riding the biggest boom in its history, But the town took it in smooth stride the usual headaches of sudden expansion averted by shrewd, bureau-directed advance planning...
...that he be assisted by eleven stagehands and four stand-by musicians. The musicians never played, and what the stagehands did remains a mystery. Last week Borge transported his Broadway show, in a cut version and with a few additions, to TV. When all the producers, directors, musicians, stagehands, boom pushers, scenery movers, cameramen, set painters, carpenters, copyists, audio and video control men were counted, it was clear that network TV's first one-man show called for more than 200 people...
...examples of its type." Says Benefactor May, who paid $1,200 for the canvas in the late '40s; "He [Knaths] abstracts nature, but it is still recognizable. Horse Mackerel is an abstraction of a giant tuna. One who looks carefully will see the form of the tuna, the boom it hangs from, and a portion of the pier. There are dynamic waves in the background-waves of beautiful color...
...most business analysts insisted that World War 11, like every other major conflict since Napoleon's day, would be followed by a depression. They failed to take into account the huge backlog of buying power behind bottled-up wartime shortages. Many of them underestimated the 1953 boom; many oversold the 1954 recession. Even in January 1955, as the U.S. hummed into an alltime record year, eight economists at a congressional hearing foresaw only a slight pickup from 1954. At the start of 1956, almost all economists were correct in predicting that business would be good...