Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom brawled on, the Bank of America would finance the lion's share of all California's crops, of all the new automobiles, iceboxes, radios, houses. Bank of America was now training 1,000 veterans to go out as veterans' business councilors. It was making loans as low as $10 to members of 4-H Clubs. It had lent $1,500 to Joe Szabo, clothing operator, who in four years boomed it into a $1,500,000-a-year business. Vyrl Coppersmith, farm boy of Chino, had got $250, bought himself two steers...
...boom had been touched off last fall when Aerophile U.S. Ambassador Adolf A. Berle Jr. fetched two dozen brand-new U.S. Army C-47s (military version of the Douglas DC-3) south to be sold as surplus property. Most of the planes went to big carriers like Cruzeiro and Panair, whose routes along the coast and across the heartland cover three times the mileage of any U.S. domestic airline. But others were bought by rugged individualists who quickly formed companies and sold stock, sometimes before getting franchises...
Chief causes of the shortage, FORTUNE concludes, were two wartime phenomena: 1) the marriage boom; 2) migration of war workers from country to city...
From Henry Wallace, whom Stage Manager Bob Hannegan co-starred with the President: "We know that [Republican] normalcy will lead to boom, bust and chaos. [The Democratic Party] stands for the people first, property second...
...last week in ecstatic travel ads. Paradise, which Pan Am seemed to have confused with Hawaii, was still not a regularly scheduled stop on any airline. But by plane or boat, every country on earth was once more open to U.S. travelers, packing their bags for the biggest travel boom ever. Even Japanese ports were reopened. Fare by freighter...