Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hawaiian sugar plantations are the world's most productive, but their costs have long been among the world's highest, too. They were increased by the organizing inroads of the C.I.O.'s Harry Bridges. Average pay for the industry is $8.10 a day. In a boom year like 1947, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar netted $2,200,000, Maui Agricultural $800,000, that was not an insuperable handicap. But recently world sugar has shown signs of returning to its "normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high...
...Republican also attempted to revive the Eisenhower-for-President boom. A Manhattan adman started a "People for Eisenhower" campaign, hoped to get an avalanche of letters and postcards to dump on the Republican convention floor...
...earnings and general prosperity, last week drifted down to a new low for the year, traders began to wonder just what Wall Street would consider encouraging news to investors. In midweek they found out. President Truman's speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along the line...
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Like Old Times. In housing, the market in high-priced old houses was so slow that they were no longer bringing boom prices. Hotelmen experienced a strange feeling: they had empty rooms for the first time in years. In some cities vacancies were up to 20%. Said a traveler: "The trains are filling up again with salesmen talking sales. It's like old times...