Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City of unorthodox booms is Shanghai, a paradise of moneychangers and middlemen. Throughout Depression I Shanghai built itself the tallest buildings outside the Americas, tripled land values on its river-washed Bund (the International Settlement's downtown) in seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai started another and less healthy boom, still booming. Factories, upcountry traders, panicky Chinese moved into the International Settlement for safety. Since no passport control blocks entry to the Settlement, refugees from all the world's political hotspots fled there-Czechs, Poles, German and Austrian Jews. Country View Apartments, aptly...
...Boom (1930), Crash (1931, 32, 33, 34), Boom (1935), Slump (1936-37), Boom (1938-39), War (1930-39). ... I suggest the Tempestuous Thirties...
...America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over to man U. S. coal mines during the industry's Civil War boom, and remained to foster unionism; the violent Irishmen who were called Molly Maguires; sainted John Siney, whose Miners' National Association of the U. S. rose, fell, and left him dying (of a broken heart, some said); the Knights of Labor, "one big union" for all workers; whiskered John...
Last fortnight, for the amusement of his radio audience of some 15,000,000, Fred got to jawing with Guest Lawrence Duffy, doorman at Manhattan's Hotel Astor in high times & low. The talk got around to tips. Doorman Duffy sighingly recalled a boom-time gratuity of $100. "Yes," sighed Fred, "back in '28, some of those Wall Street men used to think nothing of buying the restaurant and throwing it to the waiter as a tip. I guess some of those boys still chuckle about their financial pranks as they're sitting around up in Sing...
...United States is being held in reserve as the residual source of supplies for the Allies," Alvin H. Hansen Lucias N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the Business School, declared in the Guardian broadcast Saturday on "The Problem of the War Boom...