Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyhow, the U.S. had one full-blown boom to report. The nation's 25,000 practicing astrologers were doing their biggest business ever...
Jumping Professors. Understandably, the astrologers were loath to discuss their boom. Said a Chicago seeress: "If I say anything about business, those professors will jump on us again." But they eagerly claimed that astrology ("the study of life's reactions to planetary vibrations") was a science that should be taught in U.S. colleges. Some stepped right up to write 1946's news stories in advance releases-a practice that was old in 1640, when William Lilly, the "English Merlin" (see cut) fascinated Parliament with his political predictions...
...founded the Baltimore Fruit Exchange, bought control of the New York Fruit Auction Corp., extended his jobbing business. When shippers' loans to growers started running as high as $4,000 an acre during the land boom following World War I, Di Giorgio limited loans to $350 an acre. Others scrambled for business he lost. When the boom collapsed, most of them went broke...
...Boom Town. In Meteor City, Ariz., Sole Resident Jack Newsome got married, doubled the population...
...result, according to the report: some $2.5 billion in railroad stocks, had been written off the books as worthless, some just before the war boom began. If this had not been done-and earnings had been pro rated-these stocks would have earned an estimated $750 million from...