Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom had a firm foundation: by showing better pictures than before and showing them sooner (though few get first runs), and by keeping prices down (average: 55? for adults), they were giving many a regular movie house a run for its money. Getting a consistent share of better films is still a drive-in problem. But distributors cannot ignore the drive-in customer capacity: now almost one-twelfth of the national "indoor" seating...
...Valpey. Of course, when the other team has the ball, you've got to bounce 'em. That is why every afternoon Valpey has his men belting each other around the practice field near Dillon Field House. "We're in the bumping stage now," he says, "and it's all boom-boom-boom till...
...Boom & Byline. In a political year, almost every man is a politician of sorts. But most men merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
Like many another once bankrupt railroad, the Cotton Belt had found solvency in the war boom. The Southern Pacific Co., which owns 87% of the Cotton Belt stock, helped out by taking over the Cotton Belt's $18 million loan from RFC. But shippers along the railroad's wandering right of way gave a good deal of the credit for the comeback to the Cotton Belt's 70-year-old president, stubby, white-haired Frederick William Green...
...gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike...