Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train. In Manhattan last week, four hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump"). In the next seven weeks he will talk, look and listen his way across the U.S. "to see when the 'crack' is coming, to see who the next President will be, to find out how firm...
Farrington, who had made the road flourish, president. He had rebuilt its rickety trackage, spent $100 million for new equipment and other improvements, and sent 20 streamlined Rock Island "Rockets" flashing over its new, heavy-ballast rails. The war boom which helped all railroads had mightily helped the Rock Island. During the last seven years its net profits were more than $80 million...
Exam times are boom times for local beer palaces and hamburger halls according to an exhaustive poll made last night...
...summer's end, businessmen began to build up their inventories. The drop in prices, such as it was, had not lasted long or gone far. Domestic demand began to creep up again. Most significant example: the housing boom, which had been almost busted by high construction prices in the spring, turned into a boom again. By year's end, the U.S. had started an estimated 860,000 housing units (up 28% above 1946) and was building in the last quarter at the rate of well over 870,000 starts a year...
...would get more outside help in supplying food, the burden that had put the greatest strain on the U.S. There were good crops in Australia and Argentina, and even hope that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While the U.S. still worried over finding some magic nostrum to curb inflation, some slight curbs were already at work. Credit was being tightened up; the Federal Government was running...