Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, the Presidential campaign is a bonanza. The industry stands to make several million dollars selling broadcast time to the political parties. Last week Station WOSH of Oshkosh announced a novel way of boosting the ante. WOSH decided that President Roosevelt's recent radio report on his Pacific journey (TIME, Aug. 21, Sept. 4) "was political in its entirety." Consequently, from now until Election Day Franklin Roosevelt, like his opponent, will have to pay WOSH for every radio speech, political or otherwise, made over the station...
...Bonanza. Far, far back of the Siegfried Line, back on the Loire near Orleans, the Americans collected still another dividend from their bold strokes. It was a bonanza for a storybook. There 20,000 Germans were handed over to U.S. troops as stubby Major General Erich Elster, bemedaled and sticking to the Prussian amenities, flourished his pistol in surrender. His big force was the remainder of a German army that had held the Bordeaux-Biscay area. Cut off hundreds of miles behind the Allied lines, harried by Maquis, raked by aircraft on the roads, they had laboriously marched...
...weather had stayed good (TIME, June 19); now in the choking, dusty fields and in broiling sun, the harvest was on. Oklahoma was already piling its record 80 million bushels in the terminal elevators. In Kansas, 185 million bushels awaited the northward sweep of the crawling combines. Providentially, the bonanza had come just when the U.S. had been dangerously close to a critical grain shortage...
This nationwide bonanza would begin July 1, 1945. It would be a permanent addition to Canada's social-security program. The new payments, called family allowances, would probably be made by check, to parents and guardians. Basic monthly allowances: $5 for every child of five and under; $6 for every child of six to ten; $7 for those of ten to 13; $8 for 13-to-16-year-olds...
...employes (50 in labor-tight West Coast areas) may now resume manufacturing civilian goods in unlimited quantities, whenever they wind up their war contracts. As the civilian supply bottleneck is less the result of material shortages than of lack of facilities and manpower, this change will produce a small bonanza of farm equipment, household goods (e.g., irons, baby carriages) and textiles (children's and infants' clothes). More important, the new policy underlined a significant fact: WPB has at last taken a firm stand against Army & Navy demand for "everything-of -everything...