Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected that at least a third of 1942's brides will be soldiers' girls. Other source of the boom is high-paying, steady employment in industrial centers. Defense-job weddings showed the greatest increase in Cincinnati (51%), Baltimore, San Diego (47%), Dayton (42%), Bridgeport (21%), Youngstown and Akron (17%), Detroit...
Behind this inventory boom is a store-manager panic, a store-buyer picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many...
...more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India). Every war since the Crimean has created a boom in jute, but this is the first time the Western Hemisphere faced jutelessness...
...cities-especially boom towns with thousands of new taxpayers-loan offices were swamped. People who went to loan sharks paid up to 30% interest on their money. (The Government penalty, for those financially unable to pay, is only 6%. Those who can pay, but don't, are penalized 5% per month up to a total of 25%; are also liable to a $10,000 fine, a year in jail.) These people were postponing the war, putting off the day of reckoning. When next year's taller taxes loom, they will still be whittling away at this year...
...beat of a healthy heart is lūbb-dūpp: a hollow boom as the ventricles contract to pump blood, followed by the soft snap of the closing of valves to the aorta and lungs. Weak, doubled, out-of-step or extra sounds mean trouble...