Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
More recently, technology joined the party, with a high of 89 Forbes list entries in the dot-com boom year of 2000, then 42 in 2005 and 40 in 2010.
But 1920 beats that with ease, with probably well over 1.1 million live babies born in the UK as a whole, well above the post-WWII boom year of 1947, comfortably above the peak of the baby boom of the 1960s and far above the latest figures.
And investors have found more than one way to play the commodity boom this year.
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StanChart point out that their prediction of a construction boom next year hinges on government policy.
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Germany pulled off an export boom last year, despite the strong euro.
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The major auto makers will soon have their own zero-emissions vehicles, which Mr. Musk says will end Tesla's credits boom by year end.
Sure developed markets like Germany have enjoyed a GDP boom this year, even beating at least one BRIC, Russia, in the first quarter.
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Falling prices and the looming expiration of the production tax credit, which pays a premium for wind energy, unleashed a wind farm building boom last year.
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Despite these problems and the dwindling time, bonuses may still be a viable way for some companies to hold onto their crucial year-2000 workers -- especially those workers who have been with the company for long enough that they didn't benefit from the recent boom in year-2000 salaries.
Mr Albanese was not the only boss of a big mining firm to misread the robustness of China's rampant growth, which had driven a six-year boom in commodity prices and made mining unimaginably profitable.
To say, then, that in 45 days the world has gone from global-liquidity surplus to drought is to believe that the 25-year boom was a mirage, or else that all its profits were tossed into Miami and Las Vegas construction holes.
"It's different from a club, where you are right beside your neighbor and you have drinks clanging and waiters serving, " said Martin Kagan, Pace's director of cultural affairs, who also presented Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton-Callaway in their show "Boom" last year.
The 25-year economic boom of 1982 to 2007 was built at the intersection of capital and talent.
Conseiller Charles Maitland, from the Chief Pleas, said Sark was just coming out of a three-year building boom.
These policies in my opinion would produce precisely another 25 year economic boom.
If we measured it just during the 25-year Reagan boom from 1982 to 2007, the increase would be even more.
Prime Minister John Howard, who has presided over the country for 9 years of its 14-year economic boom, spoke the first night.
Semiconductor manufacturer stocks are already starting to improve, but the real boom will occur next year, when profits return to all those chip makers who have weathered the storm.
After Reaganomics was adopted in 1981, the economy took off on a 25-year economic boom in late 1982, what Art Laffer and Steve Moore have rightly called the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet.
This has continued unabated during the boom dot-com years, year 2000 non-problem, through the 2001 -2003 technology recession and finally through the recent boom and bust.
And the recent five year real estate boom there has a good five more years before home values stop appreciating.
In the 53rd month of the housing boom-bust cycle the year-over-year rate of monetary inflation was a smallish and quickly decelerating 5.3%.
Obama was poised to be a national hero given his perfect timing, with the typical post recession boom starting in his first year.
With Soviet funds, Cuba's presses turned out more than 50 million books a year in the boom times but the demise of the USSR sent production plummeting.
Reagan favored a strong dollar policy that slayed an historic inflation, and drew skyrocketing investment capital to America from around the world, resulting in an historic, 25 year, economic boom.
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As for overcapacity, most of last year's investment boom went into infrastructure, not manufacturing.
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