Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely responsible for Hollywood's production boom was this new merchandising situation. Since the U.S. Army snatched Actor James Stewart, cinemakers have become acutely aware of the draft. Anticipating a further reduction in their inventory of male box-office properties, they have put most of them to work...
...headache to studio executives, the boom has created many a new job. Scorching ahead on three shifts a day, Warners reported a 155% increase in craft employes (painters, electricians, etc.). Planning to have two blocks of five pictures in the bank by mid-July, 20th Century-Fox had 52 writers hard at work on 41 scripts...
...refrigerators, washing machines, which compete with defense industries for materials and workmen and machine tools. This would tend to build up a backlog of consumer needs for the years after the war. Meantime they proposed to let the lower-income group-its wages raised by the defense boom-have its fill of food and other goods which do not compete with defense products...
Although the U.S. defense boom had not yet reached the point of retail-price inflation, Keynes's New Deal disciples were already giving his basic idea a startling twist. A few Administration corners buzzed with it. Provoked by 1 ) the problem of U.S. morale, and 2) the perplexing question of what will happen to the economy when defense spending ends, the New Dealers thought about killing both birds with one stone by giving U.S. youth a Keynesian lien on the Peace...
...other boom periods, expansion of installment buying has helped push up the production curve. But following depressions have been deepened because consumers had past obligations to meet, thus had less current purchasing power. This time the Administration's goal is to suspend salary-hocking while the defense boom lasts, restore it to cushion the effect of the collapse which will follow...