Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...
When the pigeons continued to foil all would-be ejectors, a mild boom in eyeshades was reported around the Square as chronic library-goers dug in for a sustained aerial seige. "It may be good for flowers, but I'm no lily," quipped one burly book-lover...
Other things were done in Vera Cruz. Roads were built. More than half the budget the second year went for education and new schools. But the most spectacular thing was settlement of the land war. It caused real estate in Vera Cruz to boom. Aléman was smart and in the right place. He and Serrano invested in Vera Cruz hotels...
...growth of Argentine exports to the U.S. But as long as the U.S. maintained its foot-&-mouth disease ban on cattle and the Mediterranean fly ban on fruit, and as long as the U.S. kept growing the same farm products as Argentina, there would be a limit to the boom...
Building Bust? The U.S. building boom, generally predicted for 1947, threatened to become a bust. President Truman's economic advisers reported that a housing recession was already under way. One Administration economist estimated that about 750,000 housing units would be started this year, compared with 1,000,000 in 1946. His explanation: the construction industries and construction labor are pricing themselves out of the market...