Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the MacArthur-for-President boom began, the General was interviewed by a top-ranking U.S. political commentator. Reported Columnist Ray Clapper from Australia...
...Hello. The beginning of the postwar boom found Jimmy making $100 a week with his band at Broadway's Club Nightingale. A waiter named Frank Nolan told him that with a place of his own he could make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped...
...Miami real-estate offices it seemed like old times, almost like 1925 Florida boom times. Phones rang, telegrams poured in, buyers haggled over prices. Deals were closed, and at fancy prices, compared even to a year ago. Piling up fat commissions, brokers happily pondered the new Florida real-estate boom...
...main problem: how to project 1943's activity into peacetime, how to convert 1943's volume of output into peacefully useful goods-in short, again, what are the economic substitutes for war? But that problem could not be stated through a contemplation of the war boom, or a hopeful smacking of lips over the first postwar buying surge. It will require a much longer look-ahead...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...