Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
...enough to take around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas. By 1942, Alfred D. McKelvy Co. (trade name: Seaforth Toiletries for Men) grossed over $500,000, good enough so that Vick Chemical Co. paid McKelvy upwards of $500,000 in Vick stock for a controlling interest. Last year Seaforth grossed over...
...ghost town of Tombstone, Ariz, was having a minor boom. The boom was due to arthritis, asthma and sinus trouble, all of which are still medical mysteries...
...first time since the war boom began, there were more job-seekers in Canada than there were jobs. The Government's grim statistics: 146,000 persons were looking for work last week; 133,000 jobs needed filling. It was even worse than it looked, for 35,000 of the vacant jobs were in the Dominion's logging camps, while most of the unemployed were in the cities...
...reason why Wall Streeters kept buying in the face of such news was plain. They were betting on an upcoming business boom, plus a heady dose of inflation. Ever since V-J day they had kept their eyes, and staked their cash, on this. Short-term troubles, which may well cut earnings, were discounted...