Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wages demanded by the few workers available, the U.S. farmers' net profits-out of a gross of $19 billion-are estimated at $12.5 billion. This 65% profit ratio scared the economists. With the farmers jingling so much inflationary money in their pockets, some economists fear another runaway land boom...
...loneliness with Form 1040 got too horrible, he could still get help, of a kind. Vacant holes-in-the-wall from coast to coast suddenly became taxperts' offices. At one level above that, the nation blossomed with little schools for the tutoring of tax tutors. Biggest boom in this field of adult education came in the great industrial centers, where war plants sent their junior executives to income-tax classes, hoping to cut down absenteeism caused by tax-wrestlers. The junior executives then returned to the plants and set up as short-order advisers to the ignorant or confused...
...Tarawa Boom-De-Ay. From Brooklyn, N.Y., a radio program publicizing the Marine Corps received an appreciative letter: "I have used the product advertised on your program for years and have been highly satisfied with the results. Keep up the good work...
Last week warships, transports and merchantmen in categories and quantities never seen before crept into Pearl Harbor, crept out again. The distant boom of practising naval guns reverberated through the silvery warm winter mornings...
...Suddenly we saw a ragged edge, nosed up, and then boom!-the damned cloud had a rock in it. We thought that was the end and expected to spin. Instead we gained a little altitude. . . . The hydraulic system was out and we discovered a wheel was gone. . . . Then we found we had some control and [CoPilot Lieut. Cecil] Gibson agreed he was game to try to land. It took all our strength, both fighting all the way, to bring her down. . . . We knew a lot of guys in China would be mighty disappointed if the mail was lost...