Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly in the garment trade, are reopening as a result of the war boom in uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings a week were dropped by the hundreds because with evacuations retail trade slumped badly. In London, Selfridge...
Loomis, who had not visited Germany since 1928, was particularly impressed by the tremendous building program, and the terrific boom in industrial life...
Repeal of the Arms Embargo is very unlikely to cause a war boom in this country and will affect American business much less than is generally realized according in Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy...
With London's night life blacked out by war, British publishers last week were all set for a big book boom...
...First boom signs: Penguin Books (6d.) were swamped with orders. Book clubs and rental libraries reported big new enrollments. Large stocks moved to libraries for evacuated children, army camps (favorites: Gone With the Wind, Northwest Passage, Anthony Adverse, the Bible). A brisk trade was reported in German dictionaries, purchased by British soldiers who, they said, want to be able to read the signs to Berlin...