Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boom-&-bust should be controlled by lowering tax rates, easing credit controls, starting public works (under private contract) whenever unemployment reaches 6% of the total labor force; when unemployment drops back to 4%, the process should be reversed. Another Stassen weapon: "Officially encouraged voluntary boycotts" against excessively high prices...
...wall down the way Big Jim Allit can. Big Jim, a fat-cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
...business? By that most popular of indicators-corporate profits-the answer last week was "Wonderful!" As third-quarter earnings came in, they made boom reading. But businessmen and economists who look beyond their profit records alone threw no hats...
Lazarus has long held that the only way department stores can maintain their profits when the current boom slacks off is to make it possible for every clerk to serve more customers. To make this come true in Houston, he hired Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy and associates to lay out a $12,000,000 store that would make selling more efficient...
...other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color in a feature (hand-tinting, in Joan the Woman...