Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the days when twenty percent of those seeking jobs are frustrated, and the economy functions at a fraction of capacity. Each side labor and management, could be satisfied in its demands, given a stable full employment economy. But in an economic organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each is out to get more than just a fair share. Both sides, labor and management want that "extra" which may mean the difference between life and death in the depression. The result is the upward spiral, and the crash...
...ribald explorer into the itchy side of the South, was enjoying a crashing success in Denver with his 14-year-old God's Little Acre. The pocket edition (25?) was fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for the boom: the head of the police Morals Bureau, who suppressed the 25? Acre because "it was too easy for kids to get it." Did he find the book obscene? "No comment," said...
...open gates are also proving a boom to night-prowling Yard residents who no longer need to trains as far as three block along Massachusetts Avenue to return to their beds after finding the entrances through Wiggleworth Hall tightly locked...
...down briefly on December 19 to take a long view of their work both past and present. A bare two and a half years had passed since Mark I had been dedicated and turned immediately to recondite wartime problems. yet this infant department was now in an optimistic boom of expansion that promised to put the University in the lead in an uncharted science...
...Citizens of America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...