Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry to get a full-ripe postwar plum. From the War Production Board came the announcement: as of Oct. 15, order L-41, limiting construction of new houses to an $8,000 outlay, will be completely withdrawn (TIME, Sept. 10). Thus builders got the go-ahead for their biggest boom yet, almost entirely free of Government control...
Aplomb. With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains. Bursting with confidence in the future industrial boom (and the hope of lower taxes), the traders bid up the price of industrial stocks to an eight-year high...
...while Val D'Or lived, as boom towns do, at a dizzy pace. In 1936 it had a population of 4,000 and was a hell-roaring mining camp in a valley in the middle of nowhere. Prospectors got there by plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board...
...could deal with the problems of peace as boldly as it did with the problems of war, it could soon be off on the "greatest peacetime industrial activity we have ever seen." So honeyed and inspiring were his words that the New York Daily News headlined: PRESIDENT PLANS PEACETIME BOOM...
Nevertheless, the riproaring boom may not develop. Most of the prospective builders are already worried about high prices next year. So, said the FORUM: if prices rise steeply, nearly half the immediate market for low-cost houses will be sharply cut. Said the FORUM: the market can reach its maximum potential only if the building industry can keep costs low enough to provide plenty of low cost houses...