Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real action, the Marines' amphibian will be hoisted over ship's side with sling and boom...
...last week, for the first time in years, U. S. investors were thinking about rail stocks once more. The reason was not the simple fact that the defense boom was catching up with the rails, upping their nine-month revenues 9% (to $3,125,855,000) over the same period of 1939. It was barely suggested by the companion fact that when rail net rises above the break-even (interest-covering) point, leverage raises it much faster than the gross. The 9% increase in gross served as a lever on which 137 of the roads hoisted their combined...
...that the U. S. is on the road to recovery through rearmament. With this view Business emphatically disagreed. An ominous 67.4% felt that temporary prosperity stimulated by rearmament "will leave us with our economic problems worse than ever because we failed to set our house in order before the boom started." Thus the recent sluggishness of the stockmarket, despite soaring production indices, is evidently deeply rooted in Management's long-range mistrust of the defense hypodermic. This mistrust was confirmed by the Forum's feeling on whether now is a good time for business to expand: 26% thought...
...reason for the boom is this fact: turkeys eat less (per pound of growth) than chickens. By the time he weighs 3½ lb., a White Leghorn cockerel has packed away over 20 lb. of feed, a male turkey less than 10 lb. Turkey ranchers increased their flocks; prices fell from 60? or more a pound in 1927 to less than...
...high-cost, hand-tailored alloy steels. These are not ordered from a catalogue or mass-produced at the mill, but compounded like doctors' prescriptions to minute specifications. This year, capacity operations in such industries as automobile, machine-tool, chemical and electrical-equipment makers, plus the aircraft and arsenal boom, are making a seller's market for high-cost alloy steels. To Allegheny-Ludlum went all the velvet, none of the worry...