Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capital Investment. In Philadelphia, arrested and charged with stealing a 20-ton crane truck with a 40-ft. boom, Forrest Bowers explained that he had been seriously considering "going into business for myself...
...villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...
...bears, on the other hand, argued that the inventory boom which had started in August was already tapering off, and that the strikes were bound to give the economy another push down. Even if the walkouts were settled soon-and there was no sign of that-many a company was bound to feel the effects on its fourth-quarter earnings. Gloomiest talk of all came this week from Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. He said that the strikes had already checked "the upward trend in business and employment," and that there would be "serious damage to the economy...
...Dible. This blossom boom has been planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...
...Gold Areas, Ltd., which had made the drilling, nearly tripled in price on Johannesburg's stock exchange. Milne's paper profits were estimated at from $8 million to $20 million (TIME, June 27) on what was called the richest gold strike in South African history. But the boom collapsed when a police-supervised test showed that the ore was only a fraction as rich as the three previous tests had showed...