Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing were the private carfuls of big spenders, the planeloads of Hollywood merry-go-rounders and the toney tipplers who have made Derby Day an uproarious Kentucky Mardi Gras. Instead, local folks, with boom money in their jeans, jostled around wide-eyed as at a county fair -many seeing the Derby for the first time...
...silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...
...skilled factory hand, Detroit was the biggest boom town of all. Tool & diemakers earned $125 to $175 a week; new girls at Briggs Body got 85? an hour. Even girl stenographers at Willow Run got $67.50 a week...
...Boom Land. Bigger than the U.S. and European Russia combined, Siberia is the world's latest and greatest boom land. Between 1925 and 1939, 3,000,000 people (mainly young) moved there, raising the population...
Left. By the late George Edgar Merrick, Florida land-boom multimillionaire in the '20s, founder of Coral Gables...