Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelf. Appliance sellers, among the hardest hit by the Government's credit curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready...
...much rhapsodic optimism. Many will show their dissatisfaction by turning to a third or fourth party, believing that the next four years are expendable, and hoping for something better in 1952. They fail to recognize, however, with what deadly speed history lopes from war to peace, from boom to bust. Rejecting the path of protest, the CRIMSON believes it must choose one of the two candidates whose election is possible. The CRIMSON supports the candidacy of President Truman...
...days after the inaugural, Prío would have his first test. Havana bus workers were scheduled to strike for higher wages promised earlier by Grau. The company had cried that it could not afford to pay them. Grau's answer would have been a subsidy from the boom-filled treasury. In his inaugural address to congress, Prío announced that he had persuaded the country's businessmen to cut food prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods...
Former O.P.A. administrator Paul A. Porter last night bucked the academic cyclical theory of "boom-bust" and predicted that adequate governmental controls would prevent a depression...
...economy forever operating like an inchworm--with a hump for the 'boom' and a glide for the 'bust,'" Porter declared...