Word: boom
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During the World War, copper shot to 27?, subsequently ranged from 12? to 17? until the boom in 1929, when it averaged over 18?; in 1932 it dropped to 5?. Last year, with war abroad and U. S. industry in better shape, the price rose as high as 17?. Under this lure, production in the U. S. and abroad rose to high levels. Then demand began to slacken; prices fell; production was curtailed...
From Columbus until the World War the American people got most of their amusement informally from each other. It was only upon the advent of the Great Boom that the spelling bee and the guitar on the front porch were routed by the billion-dollar entertainment industry of radio and the movies. When, four years ago. "Major" Edward Bowes put on his amateur shows, they were a radio novelty. But this season audience participation in radio has become radio's most pronounced program trend. The high cost of stars, dearth of headline talent and Depression II have all united...
...significant moiety of Mr. Weissberger's collection were drawings which Loyalist schoolteachers had their pupils do on "The Life of the Child" before and during the war. Drawings of child life during the war showed air fights and bombs going "Bon!" (Spanish equivalent for "Boom!"). Good sample of what war psychology means to a ten-year-old who knows high explosives better than he knows Dick Tracy was one drawing of an urban air raid in which war planes were carefully distinguished as tri-motor or single-motor jobs, small figures scurried for refuge stations. "Like bugs, poor darlings...
According to Professor Hanson, no substantial revival occurred in these three fields in the recovery of 1935-1937. Although there was a real boom in the production of automobiles and some other durable consumers' goods and a very considerable investment in industrial plant and equipment, capital expenditures remained low in the basic fields of housing, railroads, and public utilities...
...woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...