Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was no such painless way to deflate the boom. There was one way, however. It was to recognize that expenditures for rearmament and foreign relief were pumping the U.S. economy up to a wartime basis-and to act accordingly...
Thus ended a boom which began even before Pearl Harbor. During the war it was nourished by U.S. purchases of war materials, and after the war it was sustained by unspent dollar balances. The boom had done great things for Mexico. It had built new roads and had equipped them with so many new cars, new trucks, new buses that the country's faithful little burros were beginning to be pushed aside. It had reared a whole new generation of modern buildings in the capital, including a race course and two new bull rings. It had started new industries...
Mexico had tried to live on a scale to which she had never been accustomed. For months the end of the boom had been in sight. In June 1947, luxury imports were forbidden. But Mexicans still wanted the good things of life. The end might be in sight, but there was no way of stopping the boom mentality until the end had actually come...
Lunging like a wounded bull, the South charged into action again. To Southerners, Douglas was a more obnoxious champion of Negro rights than Harry Truman ever was. They howled that the Douglas boom was merely an attempt to buy off the old New Dealers, who, under Leon Henderson, were the chief Douglas supporters. Snorted a. Southerner: "Douglas is just Wallace in black robes...
...Leadville, the silver boom slowed and then collapsed. "Haw" Tabor died destitute in a Denver hotel he had built. But Colorado and Boettcher prospered. Boettcher branched out into mines, land, railroads, cattle, banks. He gave generously of his millions, pinched pennies for himself. His son Claude† took over management of his enterprises, built a new fortune upon...