Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole of Los Angeles' downtown area shuddered. A light plane flying ten miles away was jolted by a sudden disturbance of the air. A florist, five miles away, heard a dull boom and saw the petals of his peach blossoms flutter to the floor. The 27-story tower of the earthquake-proof city hall shivered; windows crashed and tinkled for blocks around...
...postwar ride of the U.S. economy to peacetime heights, everybody seemed to forget the fact that the glittering boom was carried in the lowly freight car. Last week nobody could overlook the fact...
...males do not use musky perfumes. Presumably, men are missing a bet, for nature intended the magic scent as something to drive females wild. If modern men could be convinced of this principle (as they were when Mohamed wrote of panting and of bliss) a great new market would boom the perfume industry. Chemists, to save the little male musk deer, would have to work harder and faster...
With the end of the war, which halted a wartime full employment in this country, there has come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult...
...import duties and grant concessions, foreign products, with their lower labor costs will force our industries to cut costs and employment." Here the facts stand against them. The quantity of imports to the United States has almost directly correlated with the level of production and business at home. During boom years imports increased, and during slack years, they fell. Above all, the imports of most items have been an insignificant percentage of American consumption of that item. Woolen and worsted imports, for example, have never amounted to 2% of total U. S. consumption, and yet, the American woolen industry...