Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made itself felt in the life of virtually every U.S. citizen. Some of them felt it as unemployment, the victims of priorities; but most of them felt it as an unexampled prosperity. The Administration's Cato, Walter Lippmann, was moved to characterize 1941 last week as "this disgraceful boom...
Furthermore the butter, so golden and freshly churned, was by autumn melting off the arms boom. For the first time in 24 years, the Land of Plenty confronted shortages...
...more incredible to those who recalled that the farmers had been notoriously excluded from the 1940 boom. Then came Lend-Lease, and with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts...
...hinting that the U.S., despite this crop boom, might face a food shortage, the President was thinking of a new X in the war equation: the U.S. manpower reserve. Farmers had already had hired-man trouble as a result of the industrial boom and the draft. If the U.S. now raises and equips a really big army, it will draw still more on the unmobilized muscle of the farms. In that case, can the U.S. farmer feed that army, the U.S. and the Allies too? At year's end, the President had under advisement a proposal to create...
...cost only half as much as new tires (they use only 40% as much rubber) and give 75-80% as much wear. Moreover, a good tire may be renewed more than once. Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them - as long as they can get equipment and supplies. A retreader's equipment: 5- $6,000 worth of molds and buffing machinery. Chief material: camelback, an uncured rubber compound of the same ingredients that go into new tires...