Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War I, for purposes of supply, strategy and defeating foreign competition for the Indian market, Britain began - encouraging Indian industry. But after British capital had enjoyed a brief post-war Indian industrial boom, the crash came and tariffs were readjusted to protect Britain. World War II has once again brought British encouragement of Indian industry. Even so, Indians have charged Britain with discrimination against Indian firms wishing to build air craft, ships and automobiles...
Other signs of the boom in foreign languages...
Washington housing planners are minimizing the word "prefabricated" in talking about the 45,708 units they have ordered since Jan. 20. Instead they are playing up the word "demountable," explaining that after the war boom these houses can be taken down and moved away. If all of them continue to be such eyesores as the hivelike 977-unit colony completed last fall at Vallejo, Calif, (see cut], they never will be missed...
...deliberate policy," the No. 2 U.S. aircraft maker announced last week that it is holding its profits down to their "pre-emergency level" in dollars, regardless of the tremendous emergency boom in its business. Explained United Aircraft in its annual report: "It is not in the public interest to allow the greatly increased volume of business resulting from the war effort to increase aggregate profits...
Last week, though the first flush of the boom was over, the shark business still looked good. Galeorhinus males were selling for a handsome $1,200 a ton at the pier...