Word: busting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torn away ("Starting Dec. 23, the Atlantic Ocean will be 20% smaller"); its challenging ads for Ancient Age bourbon ("If you can find a better bourbon, buy it"); a Max Factor lipstick ad showing the Colosseum and a pair of fiery eyes staring from a Roman Senator's bust ("Any man will come to life when you wear Roman Pink...
...work in Washington at $17,500 a year, was Post Office Department financial troubleshooter before he signed up with the Budget Bureau last September. The big job ahead for Maurice Stans: preparing for the budget year beginning July 1959 without knowing whether he can count on boom or bust...
...From Bust to Boom. What makes the growth even more spectacular is that the private-plane boom started off with a loud bust. During World War II so many young Americans learned to fly that small-plane makers saw visions of a U.S. on wings, flying for the sheer sport of it or touring the country in planes instead of the family car. In one heady year, the industry made 34,568 aircraft, seven years' normal production, and collapsed the market. Sport flying proved too expensive, and touring by plane found little appeal. By 1948 production was down...
...symbol of gaily recurrent romance and absentee devotion. This 17th summer, with the other girl married and a new one (Madge Ryan) in her place, with relations between the two men rather strained, and with various flare-ups and intrusions, all the fun fizzles out; the show goes bust. In truth, the revelers are has-beens, the one in brawn, the other in lure; their revels now are ended...
...UNION-BUSTING CHARGES are being hurled at A.F.L-C.I.O. itself. It fired, retired or switched jobs of 100 A.F.L-C.I.O. organizers in purported economy move. But many of men were members of new organizers' union that wanted to bargain with A.F.L.-C.I.O. on wages, seniority, etc. Spokesman for them says that A.F.L.-C.I.O. axed them to "bust up" union...