Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
From $1.90 in early August the price soared to $3.93 on Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin...
Forecasts Boom and Bust...
What about timing? Can the mathematician, with the help of large-scale computers, help us to make intelligent choices and avoid alternate periods of boom and bust? Computers can, Waugh said, to the extent that they will help us to foresee the probable results of the various economic policies up for consideration...
...play, everyone stamps his feet, creating thunder before the rear. Cheers are frequent, and one tradition soaked cheer, the venerable "Axe Yell," is reserved all year long for a crucial point in the Big Game. When it finally comes, the whole stands fall into a hush as 7000 rooters boom out the tones of this famous chant. The inspired team immediately rushes to some great deed such as a first down or possibly...