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...which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came in 1961, the springboard year of the boom. By comparison, business failures in 1981 now seem set to rise no higher than...
Baby Boom Bust...
...company has almost been torpedoed out of the water several times in the boom-or-bust shipbuilding industry. In 1925, BIW actually closed its doors, and there were plans for turning the yard into a factory for making paper pie plates. In 1927, William S. ("Pete") Newell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an old-stock Yankee, bought BIW at auction and began building any kind of ship he could: yachts, Coast Guard cutters, fishing boats, then Navy vessels as World War II approached. Employment swelled to more than 12,000 during the war, but then plunged...
...falling asleep for a hundred years" has finally awakened. In a mere five years, a Mexico tottering on the verge of bankruptcy has lifted itself from the brink of financial ruin, proclaimed itself a "regional power" and publicly crossed swords with Uncle Sam on the issue of El Salvador. Bust has turned to boom, and Mexico is now building its tallest buildings, making its first military purchases in years, and even considering an ambitious nuclear-power program. One government publication proudly proclaims that Mexico "is no longer a sleepy, south-of-the-border neighbor." In fact, everyone in Mexico City...
...Anheuser-Busch's Natural Light feature Cover Girl Christie Brinkley, 27, who fills a red-and-white-striped bathing suit with come-hither bust, hips and thighs. "You don't have to be some macho jock to like Natural Light," says Brinkley in one television commercial...