Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine might be used by unions to justify demands which would cut down the extra profits of efficient companies, might in turn be used by incompetent managements to justify substandard wages. It might be used in boom times to justify extravagant wage demands and in depression to justify extravagant demands for wage cuts...
Publishers unhappily watched retail sales boom, without benefit of ads. (Seattleites, hearing that Labor Boss Dave Beck might call a strike of store clerks, did their Christmas shopping early.) After three newsless weeks, the thing people missed most, it appeared, was the latest on Dick Tracy v. Itchy...
...members of the National Association of Manufacturers who trooped into Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week were in high spirits. With lowered taxes and an upcoming boom for their products, this seemed like the best possible year for their Golden Anniversary Congress of American Industry. As sauce for this feast of good fellowship and confidence, N.A.M. invited some critical outsiders to tell it what they thought was wrong with...
...half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese undependability, etc. Then I asked him if the city had any future at all. He leaned over, gripped my shoulder and half whispered: "My boy, Shanghai is due for the biggest boom in history...
...boom began last August, when Dr. Peter Paul Zinn, 52, a onetime doctor for copper-mining Phelps Dodge Corp., came over from Bisbee and started a medical center featuring inhalations of chlorine...