Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
Business began to boom for the Bureau when, in 1940, students were banned from further use of commercial tutoring services. Within two years, many of the men who actually needed help and had been ensnared by the schools came over to the University facilities, giving the Bureau a high total of number assisted...
There were thousands of such homes, and hundreds of such young men, and most Americans had seen some. The nation, in the exhilaration of its war boom and its joy in victories, had not yet forgotten the warning that 1943 would be the year of crisis and sacrifice...
Farm equipment and manpower shortages, gas rationing and a host of other wartime worries have put some brakes on the farmland boom market up to now. The real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...
Most of California's boom-built, improbable, concrete roadside stands of 1923, shaped like coffeepots, lemons, pumpkins, setting hens, hot dogs, were fly-by-night curiosities. But the Brown Derby somehow became the rendezvous of glamor...