Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to the finalists, the survivors were a pair of Bangor Tigers, if ever there were: 28-year-old Joe Connor of Cloquet, Minn., an upstart college boy (University of Minnesota), who at the 1937 championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending...
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...toward full production, shortages and possible inflation, the U.S. economy last week knocked over many old statistical mileposts. The war boom had become definitely bigger than the biggest peace boom in U.S. history. Items...
...Typical of the capital goods makers who scarcely felt the '37 boom (thus helping to abort it), American Car & Foundry declared a dividend on its common stock for the first time since 1937, earned $5,161,130 (compared with a $10,777 loss the year before) for the year ended April 30. A. C. & F. was one of the first heavy-industry companies to convert its plants to war use. It is producing about $200,000 worth of tanks (twelve...
Failure No. 3, in some ways more important than any, was the failure to control the sinister inflation already resulting from the defense boom. Even OPACS Boss Leon Henderson, seldom a pessimist, now gloomily admitted the U.S. was probably on the edge of credit inflation, although he could not foresee such extremes as the printing of greenbacks...