Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heah go mah firs' bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee-BOOM! Go ahead...
...boom you write about is only apparent. Even though the price of sugar has gone up and the Cuban sugar quota is larger, the cost of production has increased so much that even fair profits are questionable. Sugar bags have soared from 18 to 65? each, oil from 2 to 5? per gallon, steel plates from 2 ¾ % to 22? per pound, railroad ties from 90? to $1.60 each, wages from 80 and 90? to $1.30 and $1.40 per day, etc. To this one must add the extra cost of transportation caused by the storing of sugar...
...story on boom times in Cuba brought a score of letters from Cubans telling of poverty and bad times-or at least a reasonable facsimile. Undoubtedly Cuba's prosperity is not yet felt by all classes. But there are also plain and simple facts: 1) Cuba's income this year is at a 15-year peak; 2) Cubans have more automobiles, radios, refrigerators and telephones than ever. Furthermore, the entire export sugar crop has been bought by the U.S. at 2.65? (compared to a pre-war world sugar price of less than 1?), and will be paid...
...Arkansas' inferiority complex, the war boom was just what the psychiatrist ordered. Arkansans found the whole U.S. grateful for the bauxite mines (for aluminum). Their industrialists snagged $400,000,000 in war contracts. Arkansans bustled off to war jobs with lifted chins and level eyes...
Selling all sorts of conventional summer needs from bathing suits to antiperspiration creams, drug stores are feeling a big part of the boom. The demand for women's cosmetics and notions is especially great. And at the soda fountains, if students keep drinking at their present rate, they will probably set an all-time record...