Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom...
...drawn after a study of the panoramic picture of U.S. labor: 1) its working conditions are generally excellent; 2) foreign-born workers, particularly, spurt into faster production when the war news is bad; 3) women workers take the war more seriously than men; 4) many workers accept the war boom as their economic personal stepping-stone to a good life; 5) many do not think about...
Suddenly below us is the grey shadow of a Zero plane, sneaking up. Sergeant Ed Cooney, of Rushville, Ind., swings around in his gunner's position and "lowers the boom" on him. Two rapid bursts, then one of Ed's guns jams. But the other one keeps firing and the Zero falls away. Other Zeroes are in the air, climbing...
Index of this boom were the annual sales figures announced last week by Manhattan's largest (and newest) art dealer, Gimbel Brothers Department Store. Gimbels' sales-$5,255,000-more than doubled last year's. Fifty-Seventh Street's largest art auctioneers, swank Parke-Bernet Galleries,* ran second with $4,007,823.35, an increase of 10%. Smaller dealers reported similar increases. What share had been bought by refugees could not be positively figured, for Manhattan's art impresarios are as secretive about their clients as doctors about their patients. But most of them agreed that...
...Listen to mah motor roar. Gr-r-row-owow! Now heah go another bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee BOOM! Go ahead...