Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired, idealistic Governor Tugwell, onetime Brain Truster. Last week, as reports circulated that he would resign before home rule arrives to give way to a President-appointed native chief executive, Reformer Tugwell was in Washington pleading for more food for the 1,869,245 Puerto Ricans. Despite the temporary boom caused by military expansion, the island is still desperately poor. Many of its children are underfed, much of its population (31.1%) is illiterate. The wages of the jibaros who work the sugar plantations are woefully low. Both U.S. and native politicos knew that self-government might gladden the hearts...
...Private Shearer, frantically trying to modulate the pundit's inexplicable emphases, Kaltenborn sounded "like a conga drum; one, two, three . . . boom!" After 13 minutes the pundit was through and the private was exhausted. The announcer ushered Kaltenborn gracefully off the air, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem...
...durable-goods boom collapsed of necessity when manufacturing of autos, refrigerators, etc. was stopped and hoarding ate away retail stocks. Then the public began to stock up on nondurable goods, but by February hoarders were glutted enough to ease up a bit on soft goods...
...Boom. In Manhattan, greeting-card manufacturers attributed a 25% increase in business over 1940 to a "dislocation of normal home relations...
...This boom has meant one grande fiesta for some 4,250,000 life-loving Cubans. They are guzzling more sweet-tasting rum, screaming at more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped...