Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace and his opposite numbers in Europe use against the U.S. Will there be a depression in the U.S.? Says Miss Ward: maybe. There are few present signs that a depression is imminent but there are also few signs that the U.S. has learned how to master the bust & boom cycle. Will the U.S. return to isolationism and leave Europe in the lurch? Says Miss Ward: definitely not. Is the U.S. imperialist? Says Miss Ward: nonsense...
...boom about over? After a summer lull in public speculation, the pundits took up the question again...
Harvard's sage, grey Sumner H. Slichter, who had rightly warned of inflation dangers while others mistakenly worried about a recession, finally thought that the boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
...boom in television strikes ARCHITECTURAL FORUM as a very mixed blessing. Blinking nervously, the current FORUM takes a quick, appalled look at TV's pres, ent and foreseeable future. Sample findings...
Subtraction. The cream was off the boom for Burroughs Adding Machine Co. It cut the price of its $184 adding-subtracting machine to $155, the $135 model to $125. Burroughs said it was giving consumers the benefits of its production savings. But there was another cogent reason: Burroughs had caught up with the backlog on its lower-priced machines...