The plans flourished and spread in the prosperous decades after the war, and so did Social Security coverage.

"At the end of 1928, you would have said the 1920's were the most prosperous decade ever," Mr. Jenrette said.

Society's itch to consume and collect became an engine of the nation's most prosperous, most acquisitive decade in at least a century.

The most prosperous decade in American history, the 1960's, featured similarly low inflation and unemployment.

For the Seagull, though, it was the start of a prosperous decade.

During the prosperous 1990's decade, the U.S. created an average of 182,000 jobs/month.

Bergen was at its most prosperous during the next decades.

Such proclaimed intentions were met with no practical success throughout the rest of the comparatively prosperous decade of the 1920s, however.

Thus the United States is not only still "No. 1," but also poised on its most prosperous decade.

She noted that Hempstead was much more prosperous decades ago, before the departure of most of its white population.