Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greenback Party: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer from Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 59, maintenance man in a South Bend lathe factory. Founded in 1874, its present program might be summarized as follows: The way to stop boom-bust cycles is just print money when it is needed...
Adolf Hitler was still popular in Germany. His face made its first postwar magazine cover appearance on the U.S.-managed picture weekly, Weekend (to boom an article titled Is Hitler Still Alive?). The 20,000 copies allotted to Germans were snapped up like unrationed chocolate (some newsstands were begging for more after 20 minutes), sold out the first...
...bloom off the boom? The Department of Commerce last week saw some signs of it. In the first six months of 1948, said the Department's monthly Survey of Current Business, "the rate of advance was probably the slowest for any six-months period since the postwar up trend began, with fewer industries reporting gains in output and more reporting downward adjustments...
...nation's taxicab business has slumped as much as 25% below the normal summer slack. Parmelee Transportation Co., biggest U.S. company, with 4,167 cabs in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, figures that this year's net may go as low as $500,000 (its boom-peak net: $2,000,000 in 1946). For many a smaller company, trying to meet more than doubled postwar costs on prewar fares, the slump means...
...boom began in World War II, when the river took some of the strain off the overworked railroads. The 40% postwar rise in rail freight rates was a greater spur. Now a ton of oil can be shipped on the river from Baton Rouge to Pittsburgh for $6.02 (compared to $12.62 by rail), a ton of steel from Chicago to Houston for $6.04 (compared...