Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom which will very literally leave the public "bust" unless it turns around and takes preventive action...
...best with his stable of commentators, probably the most popular on the air. Noble has also done well with ABC financially. He has boosted the number of network stations from 168 to 204, the gross network sales from $14,000,000 to $40,000,000. (One reason: in the boom war years ABC has had more time to sell than NBC or Columbia.) Gross profit rose from $9,250 in 1942 to an estimated $2,000,000 this year; net profit from $52,000 to about...
...this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
...dollar socked away now when it can buy a mediocre pair of drawers, may pay for most of a good second-hand suit when the threatening boom busts...
...administer the CPA plan through export-license control, hated the thought of curbing foreign trade at a time when the U.S, was asking the rest of the world to relax trade restrictions. (Commercial exports in May were $649 million, highest since January 1921.) But there had been no boom since OPA's death. If a boom started, OIT could clamp on controls in 24 hours. In effect, CPA was turning on the hose before the fire started. But CPA was bulling its plan through anyway. It intended to make doubly sure that there would be no fire...