Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom market for school training has created such a demand for it among college students that now more than 500 institutions, besides the 32 Class A schools, offer journalism courses of sort, ranging from nearly Class A caliber down to bedraggled asides in English majors...
...print inflation (prints are usually run off in strictly limited editions of 100 or less), Lewenthal began making them in lots of 250. The prints sold at first like hot cakes, then slumped when the novelty wore off. Reeves Lewenthal thereupon took to the mails, and business began to boom. To his 26 artists Lewenthal paid a flat rate of $200 for each print plate; those who sold more carried those who sold less. Since Lewenthal owned the plates outright, there was no limit to the number of prints he could make from each plate. When the issues from...
...draft seaworthy vessels out of intercoastal trade to meet the growing shortage in ocean shipping, the railroads last week were in a fair way to get back most of the freight they lost to the Panama Canal. But the carriers-already pressed for freight cars by the defense boom-had good cause to be frightened as well as pleased...
...shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
...outset hostile to the needs and aspirations of labor. But even voluntary mediation is hardly the solution. Where arbitration is possible, strikes seldom occur. The causes of the present strike wave are a matter for action rather than mediation. Profits and prices have been going up in the war boom. Wages have not. The worker's dollar won't buy what it used to, and his employer won't raise his wages, so he goes out on strike...