Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the temporary coal boom which war produced, anthracite ran into one of its characteristic price wars, and bituminous coal production, down 6% from the 10,450,000-ton peak hit week ended Oct. 26, was apparently headed back down to a 9,000,000-ton weekly rate...
...Last week, the Department of Labor's all-commodity index, whose war-boom peak had been 79.5, slid to 79.1. The New York Journal of Commerce's more sensitive index (autumn peak: 82.4) was down...
...have France and Britain begun buying bedroom suites for the Maginot Line. The something which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...
...spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
...neat anomaly was to be found last week in the statistics of 1939's war boom. In October the Federal Reserve production index reached 120, past its 1937 peak of 118. Yet October employment (up 1,250,000 from 1938, according to Madam Secretary Perkins) was down by more than 1,000,000 men from 1937's peak...