Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year the boom town of Rangely, Colo. has grown from 50 to 5,000 people. Oil did it: Rangely now has 105 flowing wells. Like other boom towns, Rangely is full of mud, mugs and bad whiskey-but it has a distinction all its own. Two women put out its only newspaper...
ALPHONSE P. J. BOOM...
Like many a town with a war boom, Denver and its newspapers have been worried about how to meet the city's Johnny-come-latelys. One out of four Denverites (pop. 375,000), a recent poll showed, has arrived since 1940. A good many of them like to pelt the papers with dirty digs at Denver's manners, its dress, its cops, its way of life. Denver's anxious-to-please editors printed the gripes, and for a while did not talk back...
Doctors attribute current hospital overcrowding mainly to 1) an 8,000,000 increase in U.S. population since 1939, 2) a great boom in hospital insurance plans (nearly 27,000,000 members) and 3) a trend toward treating more & more diseases and delivering more & more babies in a hospital instead of at home. The biggest demand for hospital care is in cities. But the new building program will not be conducted on the principle that the squeaking axle gets the most grease. A major share of the federal funds will be used to build small hospitals and health centers in rural...
...profits of this first big beachhead of U.S. capital in Africa looked good. After every South African gold strike there has been an overall industrial boom. If it comes out of the workings of the Orange Free State field American Anglo-Transvaal, through its option to participate in any of Anglo-Transvaal's operations, will be in on the ground floor...