Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...
...send capital abroad in the form of foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom in U.S. foreign trade may melt away overnight...
...poor territory, but Bracy knew what its oil men, coal miners, farmers and railroaders wanted, stocked it for them. Sales, helped by the war boom, went up; so did Bracy's bonus. By 1944 Bracy was getting a bonus of $196,394 plus $25,000 salary. Stockholders began asking questions; so did other branch managers, cramped in straight salaries. Bracy was rocking the Kroger boat...
First, he told them the news they wanted to hear-about how the steamer, Frost, was all set to boom the pulpwood across Lake Mooselookmeguntic. Then he told them about the men he had seen at the other lumber camps. After a while he worked around to religion, passed out some leaflets and invited the men to look at the Bibles and paper-covered Gospels he had piled on the table. Most of his congregation were French Canadians who understood little of what Pastor Burger had said, but they were glad to find "La Sainte Bible...
What was happening to the building boom? By last week there were plenty of signs that in many cities it was turning into something resembling a bust. Although the construction industry has figured that there will be enough materials for a million new houses in 1947, the Department of Commerce now estimates that only 700,000 to 800,000 will be built. And this seemed highly optimistic. Fewer permanent new houses (133,500) were started in the first three months of 1947 than in the same period last year...