Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no question about the boomtown aspects of the U.S. You see it everywhere, particularly in Louisville, which has been a boom town for two years. If the war ended today with a victory for us, the mass of folks here could truthfully say that the war was the best thing to happen in their lives. They have more of everything and they are getting more every...
...took all the new payrolls away, before rationing got too tough, the people had decided to enjoy themselves. Some men were troubled that the spirit of sacrifice was not abroad (see box). But whether or not men took the war to heart in every town that had a wartime boom, men followed their instinct: eat. drink and make merry for tomorrow we fight. There every night is Saturday night and Saturday night is New Year's Eve. For example...
General Electric orders in the June quarter were a whopping $566,250,000, one-quarter larger than its entire annual sales in the boom year 1929. Almost 100% war work, the new orders will help boost GE's 1942 sales to $1 billion or better...
...Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
...long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp Hood men learn to use all these, but most important, they are learning how to handle tank destroyers. The phrase "antitank" is disappearing in favor of "tank destroyer...