Word: boom
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Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
Cupid, who does just as good business in city parks as he does in a haymow, smiled all over his face last week. New York City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry-10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings...
Nehemkis did not name his ten doomed industries. But the manufacturers of die castings and their customers were probably among them. Last week the die-casting industry was a mirror of the inequities and ironies of a defense boom...
...This not only threatens inflation. It also means that consumers are finding it easy to buy many goods (autos, e.g.) whose production must be curtailed for defense, and that many U.S. citizens, mortgaging their future now, will have less money to spend after the boom when spending will be needed...
...Brasher's collection of North American bird portraits-bigger, if not better than that of the late, great John James Fougere Audubon. Connecticut had, as yet, no museum to put them in, couldn't see its way to building one until the present munitions boom was over. Casting about for likely storage space, the State last week had received offers from the State Library, Hartford's Avery Memorial, Middletown's Wesleyan University, Yale's Peabody Museum...