Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the food wagons rolled 24 hours a day, because the machine-tool industry is in mid-boom. Few of its 350 plants do not work around the clock. Big toolmen say in a spirit of cheerful frustration: "We can't make a dent on the back-log." The industry makes possible modern assembly lines-it makes the machines that make machinery, machines that make parts so accurately that they can be used interchangeably in any one of a series of airplanes, automobiles, cannons, egg beaters. When a manufacturer develops a new model or expands his productive capacity...
...this boom in machine tools, the U. S. aircraft industry, with a backlog of $750,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 more in sight in Allied orders, was chiefly responsible. But many other domestic orders were keeping toolmen on the hop. The automobile industry, which spent handsomely for 1940-model tooling, is already handing out fat orders for 1941 models. Army and Navy have been buying heavily and secretly for their industrial mobilization plans. Topping all is an expanding export trade for aircraft plants and arsenals in Europe, particularly France, Great Britain and Sweden. In normal times exports take...
...when Huey Long was getting licked for Governor in 1924, and plunging into the politician's purgatory of private practice, deals, publicity hunting, Local Boy Sam Jones, 26, was wrenching himself away from DeRidder and moving to Lake Charles (population then: 13,000), where an oil boom had started...
...boom in Republican prospects...
...Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co., No. 1 factor in automotive glass and sole supplier to General Motors, rode on the back of 1939's automobile production boom, for the year netted $8,062,753, more than twice...