Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the post-war hiring boom is definitely over, there is no need for properly qualified graduates to worry about getting a good job in the field of their choice...
...Boom Town. Seattle, a city then so new that many a citizen could remember shooting deer inside its limits, was the product of great booms-the migration, which followed the railroad, the Alaskan gold stampede, the frenzied era of shipbuilding during World...
Whatever Habaneros wanted-rest, fun, comfort, or bargain shopping-Miami had. A combination of inflated prices in Cuba plus fast, cheap air service had launched a boom in northbound tourist travel; Havana, long celebrated as a tourist spot in its own right, since last spring has sent some 50,000 tourists to Florida...
...movie box office has not yet completely lost the land-office look it had during wartime. But moviemen suspect that the boom is over. How soon a real slump will come is something that fretful Hollywood has begun to fret about...
...word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...