Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Endless Boom. Seventh biggest of U.S. cities by 1960 census figures, Houston claims to be the fastest-growing major city in the nation. Last year Houston issued $338 million worth of building permits, trailing only New York and Los Angeles. Over the past decade, office space in the city has almost doubled, to more than 12 million sq. ft. Nine new skyscrapers costing a total of $90 million are currently being added to the Houston skyline, which already includes the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, the new 44-story downtown headquarters of Humble Oil & Refining Co. Under construction...
...ship channel was dredged, the Port of Houston was opened, and the city became a busy cotton and lumber center. It now ranks as the third largest port in the U.S. (behind New York and New Orleans). In the 1920s, oil discoveries near by set off an oil boom that has never ended. When the U.S. war machine needed rubber during World War II. Houston turned to the area's oil, salt and sulphur resources and built massive petrochemical plants to produce synthetics. Far from slowing down after the war, the city's growth boomed: in the decade...
...Smell of Money. That kind of nothing-to-it optimism is characteristic of Houston. It strikes newcomers even more vividly than the heat or the building boom. "I like the aura of optimism everybody has here," says a new arrival. "Everybody thinks he can do the job that's put to him, and he goes about it in a happy manner." In other cities, citizens sniff foul air and worry about pollution; in Houston, they savor the pungent odor that wafts from the refineries and chemical plants and cheerfully call it "the smell of money...
Mendoza bought a small building-materials company in 1930, soon after the oil boom burst over the country. As the new riches sparked a spurt of building. Mendoza's company grew to dominate the construction-products market. An enlightened businessman. Mendoza realized that what was good for Venezuela was also good for him. In a brief stint as Minister of Development during World War II, he helped enact the laws that formed the basis for the precedent-shattering 50-50 formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies doing business in the country...
Violins shimmer, kettledrums boom, and out of the phonograph throbs the prim soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was-yes, that's the one-the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman...