Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice president of United Mine Workers, and more important, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Murray is boss of the majority of workers in key industries of defense: automobiles, aircraft, rubber, clothing, electrical supplies, coal-and steel. Defense industry will have to listen to him soon. For every boom, including a defense boom, touches off labor trouble. Such troubles are now being made as surely as airplanes and tanks. Whether they can be settled without weakening the preparations of the U. S. and without impairing the rights of labor depends first on Philip Murray...
Early in the morning of July 5, 1922, a few hours after Brazilians had finished celebrating U. S. Independence Day (declared a holiday that year by President Epitacio Pessôa), the people of Rio de Janeiro were awakened by the boom of cannon, the rattle of machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry...
Agriculture, the one U. S. industry which the defense boom has passed by, is also the one U. S. department in which New Dealers can still think in nonwar terms. There dwells Surplus Marketing Administrator Milo Perkins, the ex-Texas businessman who invented the popular Stamp Plan for distributing surpluses to reliefers without bypassing the grocer. Agriculture last week announced another Perkins scheme: the application of his Stamp Plan to cotton growers, many of whom have not been able to buy enough mattresses, clothes and other cotton products for their...
...showing of any of the 20 registered exchanges in the U. S. Reason: of the 75,000-odd persons drawn to Washington by the defense program since last May, many are big-time manufacturers used to stock trading. Members have a feeling that, thanks to Washington's defense boom, 1941 will find the W. S. E. more of a stock exchange, less of a social club...
Real-estate owners in Green Haven, N. Y. (pop. 38) found themselves on the verge of a boom that has nothing to do with defense. Reason: construction of a new $8,000,000 State prison (for Sing Sing overflow...