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Word: boom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prices hit moderate boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gold Rush 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gold Rush 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Bank of Kodiak boasted a 314% increase in deposits in nine months. Kodiak's weekly newspaper advertised six transfer companies, six cab companies, six restaurants, nine liquor stores and bars, one laundry. How long the boom would last no one would predict. But in Kodiak, only 600 miles from the Arctic Circle, Coca-Cola hopefully erected a bottling works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gold Rush 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...while their left hands have been putting the well-known thumb on labor, with their right hands the leaders of industry have adroitly been harvesting the increased profits of the defense boom while continuing to avoid major taxes. More flagrant even than that, as a minor speaker at the congress of the National Association of Manufactures threw in their faces the other day, the highly paid executives have been raising their own salaries. Admitting that his figures of 18 per cent salary boosts were "scandalous", the speaker, a Tennessee congressman, proceeded to leave the N. A. M. meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Takes the Rap | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

...rate of income from the University's present endowments depends on more factors than anyone, let alone the Crimson, can foresee. Dividends from the half of University investments in stocks, for instance, probably won't go up despite the defense boom. In fact, they're likely to go down on account of increased taxes. As for the bonds, which comprise the other half, not even the Harvard Economics Department knows what is going to happen to their interest rate. Suffice it to say that the University doesn't seem to be worried on the score of its invested funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Forward II | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

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