Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...
...there were first signs of a break. Boom mewn in Tacoma voted to return to work at a compromise raise of 7½? an hour, other grievances to mediation...
...years, beginning with opium and ending with oil, Shanghai was a boom town of quick, fabulous profits and easy spending. The Municipal Council reflected the spirit of the town. From its huge budget it paid huge salaries, bothered little about amenities of health or policing...
...still hankered for the $2,000 annual average wage which some claimed was the adequate minimum living income for a family-although many economists held that if labor reached its $2,000 goal in this war boom it would get inflation rather than its money's worth...
Church bells will ring out in warning when the first German troops land on British soil. From radio loudspeakers, from sound trucks racing through the streets, voices will boom, telling Britain's people what to do. "Give all help you can to our troops," said the pamphlet. "Do not tell the enemy anything. Do not give him anything. ... If small parties are going about threatening persons or property . . . and they come your way, you have the right of every man and woman to do what you can to protect yourself...