Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were brave days...
...disturbed by their sensitivity to war news; they worried more about the market's fundamental weakness, now almost chronic. It has no "supporting power"-no outer ring of semiliquid investors able to ride out the brief news-born squalls. One reason for this weakness: despite the production boom, corporate earnings are not going up in proportion to corporate sales (see below). Another: much Wall Street buying power has been absorbed by the liquidation of Britain's U. S. securities. For these unloadings Wall Street had a new name last week: Bundles from Britain...
...rearmament boom...
Fearing went to New York from his home town of Chicago in 1924-a time when life in the U. S. metropolis was ripe for the mirroring his style could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear...
...talk of the city's prosperity-mongers. That left Fearing's style heatedly reflecting what was gradually growing cold. Instead of letting his sardonic feelings about life find a new level in keeping with the spiritual developments of the times, he tried to maintain them at boom-time pitch. In consequence, much of the language in his Collected Poems is simultaneously red-hot and obsolete...