Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, was first published March 3, 1923. It was a year of intermission. The war, the great debate over the League, the postwar boom and slump were moving off the stage. The U.S. was bewildered at the erratic behavior of women, Senators, prices, adolescents, Russians. Things, it was felt, were due to settle down...
...Grain prices seemed to have found an uneasy bottom. Corn and wheat seesawed, ending the week about where they started. The stockmarket also caught its breath; trading was small and cautious. Traders, like most other businessmen, were waiting to see how severely the crash in commodities had shaken the boom. Last week, a few soft spots appeared...
...Washington's School of Architecture, Welton Becket and Walter Wurdeman determinedly rushed the same coed. Neither of them married her, but out of their rivalry grew a business partnership that has taken Architects Becket, 45, and Wurdeman, 44, right to the top of Los Angeles' building boom...
...been a normal condition of American colleges for years that one third of the so-called students were in the way, cluttering up the place and interfering with other people's intellectual progress. If we need more room to take care of the boom in 1960, let us create a good part of it by clearing out the useless lumber that we have already...
...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...