Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First hosiery mill to close last week was Gotham Silk Hosiery Co.'s Courtland mill in Philadelphia. Its 600 employes would soon be lost in Philadelphia's defense boom. Quite different was the outlook in North Carolina, where 22,000 hosiery workers face unemployment within two weeks. In Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon...
Like a thin, cold rain, letters poured down on every Government office that deals with defense, from the Department of Agriculture to the White House itself. The letters came from farmers, businessmen, little people of all kinds-victims of the biggest production boom in U.S. history. Some of their complaints were trivial, some were serious. But the thing they complained of was always the same: shortages...
...short, India, where the pre-war average male wage was less than $30 a year, is enjoying a war boom, and the sight of an untouchable smoking a big cigar and wearing a silk shirt is perhaps no dream of the far future...
...Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes mistake them for sunsets. Other biologists have been skeptical of all claimed adaptations, especially mimetic postures. Cott goes to neither extreme. Proof of adaptive coloration, he agrees, "is one of the most notable triumphs ever...
...Even Wall Street, No. 1 nonparticipant in the arms boom, stirred to partial life last week. With two 1,000,000-share days in a row on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average gained 3% for the week, from...