Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Army, Navy, and Columbia would be a tremendous boom to football. It would be a last remaining stronghold of amateurism and would inject new life blood into all the member institutions...
Since June 30, eight to nine million U. S. stockholders have watched industrial production rise to boom levels, read of a flood of commercial and military orders, wondered what their take would be. Last week they were finding out: the march of third-quarter earnings reports was on. A New York Sun study of the first 59 companies to give an account showed combined profits of $38,306,000-2% under the preceding quarter but up 39% from the export-inflated September quarter of 1939. Besides higher profits, most reports showed three main trends: 1) sales...
...Flowing Gold" is a re-take of "Boom Town" sans Hedy Lamarr. Schools of thought are divided as to whether the picture is better or worse...
...horseback appraisals" of who would pay what, the new bill's grander follies began to take shape. Most startling example was the contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying on any excess...
Between 1890 and 1910 Chicago boomed again, gained 1,000,000 new citizens. "As in previous boom eras," records Asbury, "the underworld more than kept pace. . . ."A reign of terror arose...