Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partners bought fine houses and cars. They started buying real estate just in time to cash in on Mexico City's real-estate boom. Five years after leaving the university, the grocer's boy was rich...
Fair Warning. In the midst of recession talk, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in its monthly Business Review worried over the possibility of a "boom" psychology which might result in speculation and overexpansion...
...Boom in Bonds. The Treasury Department reported that sales of E bonds during the first quarter of the year exceeded redemptions by $326,146,000. The tide had turned abruptly after eleven months during which cash-ins had been greater than purchases...
...complex theory of cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
...example, Dewey & Dakin contend that the building cycle reached its peak in late 1942. Because the cycle is now on the downgrade, the expected boom will probably not develop. In the last month, builders have jittered over the same thing. But they blame it on high prices. Dewey & Dakin say it was in the cards all along...