Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...
Born into the great American boom town of the 1890's, Pittsburgh, and educated at Wellesley, she made an important place for herself in industry before the World War broke out. The story of her twelve years as "employment superintendent" at the Clothcraft Shops in Cleveland is an engrossing study in human relations. Handling those thousands of workers in that plant was like playing an intricate, many-stringed instrument. Mary Gilson lost herself in the task of introducing scientific management in those shops, and succeeded in making them a standout example of good industrial relations. This...
Three years ago, hearing that Londoners danced on roller skates, Manager Martin got England's famed roller-skating Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament...
...Allentown, Pa., had just settled down to their hazardous day's work one morning last week. They were making sensitive detonators for blasting, TNT for the Navy, smokeless powder for the Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles that had been two men, six women...
...farsighted or lucky. When he laid out his program in 1935 he reckoned on kitchen utensils, Boy Scout knives, soda fountains, perhaps the automobile and construction trades to take the bulk of his expanded output. But 1940 finds him sitting on top of a war boom that keeps some departments of his new plant on three shifts. Because Rustless sells only ingots, billets, slabs, bars, rods and wire, does no fabricating, "Tut" is not sure what percent of his sales go into defense. But stainless steel is used for turbine blades in warships, for the barrels of Garand rifles...