Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barred Gates. In spite of the shortage of skilled labor, black citizens are unwelcome in many war industries. As the war boom got going last year, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters planned to forestall discrimination in defense plants by a protest march of 50,000 Negroes on Washington. When he got wind of the plan, Franklin Roosevelt sent for Porter Randolph. After their conference, the President issued an executive order forbidding color discrimination in defense industries. Negroes thought the President had passed a miracle second only to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The President...
...Detroit's boom center, Ford lifted a challenge to other defense plants, a hope to Negroes, by admitting Negroes to its apprentice school, distributing defense jobs proportionately...
...much-abused Tchaikovsky piano concerto had disappeared abruptly from best-selling and radio-plug lists, but another classic was in the offing-Grieg Piano Concerto, recorded by Bandleader Freddy Martin, who had started the Tchaikovsky boom...
Wave upon wave, coming in from the horizon, building up great mountains of water, building, coming, gathering, water and foam and sea power--then breaking against hard rock and warm sand, slapping with resounding boom, and washing back to the horizon again...
...Biggest gainer in War II has been farm products, up 58% (a deliberately created boom), which necessarily carried up raw materials 39%, foods 37%, textiles 36%. But in the same period in War I, farm products went up 87%, foods 72%, textiles 65%, raw materials...