Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest crop in the nation's history-a crop that is already sold out, as is all the grain the prairies can grow for the rest of the decade. With the rumble of the harvest came a cacophony of Canadian sounds that, taken together, sounded unmistakably like boom...
...Reins. On the eve of its 100th birthday, Canada is surging with unprecedented prosperity-a prosperity that its American next-door neighbor is scarcely aware of. That ignorance is doubly ironic since it is largely because of U.S. capital investment-$8 billion in the past decade-that the Canadian boom was launched. Much of that ignorance will be dissipated during 1967, Canada's centennial year, when Americans in considerable numbers will head north of the border to visit Expo 67, the Canadian world's fair in Montreal. Just how considerable is far from clear. Expo has counted...
British Columbia shares the great boom with three other provinces of Canada's West...
...Reasons. One reason for the sparse traffic is the steep toll-$4 for car and driver, plus 85? for each passenger older than six. Another explanation: early completion of Interstate 95, which provides a competing route farther inland. Besides, an expected economic boom in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area has simply not materialized...
...Ceat, who account for about 75% of the country's tires, have as yet barely noticed the arrival of Goodyear and Firestone, whose plants have reached full production only within the past 18 months. But Goodyear officials believe that the Italians underestimated the extent of their economic boom and are not geared up to cope with the market. Having been in Italy far longer, Esso is now second only to the state-owned gas distributor A.G.I.P., and has increased its sales nearly 20% over the past twelve months -thanks in part to its popular "tiger-in-your-tank" promotion...