Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than any other man, elusive Enrico Mattei, 56, influenced the sustaining postwar boom known as the "Italian Miracle.'' Boss of the state-owned oil and gas monopoly called E.N.I, (for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), he made it a power to reckon with in Italian politics, and was lionized by ordinary Italians for his daring, his nationalism-and his luck. He earned a U.S. Bronze Star as a war-time partisan. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he was put in charge of the sputtering state oil monopoly. Unwilling to see this remnant of Fascism dismantled, he disobeyed government...
...week, when the President greeted visiting Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella on the White House south lawn with a solemn military review and a 21-gun salute, Caroline and her playmates watched from a third-floor window, began mimicking the military commands with cries of "Attention!" "Shoulder arms!" and "Boom! Boom...
...there is also an overall fear that Europe's mighty postwar economic rebound is slowing down. Fortnight ago, Robert Marjolin, one of the Common Market Commission's three vice presidents, declared that he detected in Europe all the classic symptoms that herald the end of an economic boom, and speculated that "a recession might occur at the end of 1963 or later" And last week Sweden's Per Jacobsson, much respected head of the International Monetary Fund, reminded his fellow Europeans that "business expansion does not go on forever," and warned that he saw "signs...
...candidates then settled down to the topic of the debate, "Automation and Defense Contracts--Boom or Bust for Massachusetts...
...with the party program but would only mean proliferating bureaucracy if carried out. All this has caused jitters among Italian businessmen, who have begun to hold back on investments and blame the apertura for contributing, if only psychologically, to a slight slackening of Italy's still impressive boom (the annual growth rate has slipped from 9.8% in 1961 to 7% this year, which parallels what is happening in the entire Common Market...