Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening guns of the New England Students for Wallace campaign will boom today and tonight when 500 collegiate delegates crowd into Longfellow Auditorium in downtown Cambridge as guests of the Harvard Committee for Wallace and other Rub groups...
...that an analysis of the town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative quality; this last is discovered; the town has a bust; Stewart pulls out a gimmick providing for a return to normalcy; Stewart marries Jane Wyman, a newspaperwoman who has been involved throughout. A great many other things happen during this...
...said tersely. "I have some $25 and $35 ties, but I don't take them out unless a customer comes in and asks for one." All Miami felt the same way Tony did. By last week the city was aware that World War II-and the boom that followed-was over...
...biggest props under the boom is another kind of boom: the vast increase in the U.S. population. Last week, the National Industrial Conference Board warned businessmen that it was time they began taking the population boom into account. Said N.I.C.B.'s Business Record: "The significance. . . to businessmen can hardly be overestimated...
...Durable Boom. The Federal Reserve Board reported that its index of industrial production dropped slightly from a postwar peak of 192 in November to 191 in December. Despite the general decline, however, durable goods continued to advance; steel, autos, and freight cars reached new peaks...