Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government at Ottawa was still brightly optimistic about it all. Cried big, bluff Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell: "There's nothing to get hysterical about. In six months our problem may be to fight a boom." The understandably worried workers certainly hoped...
Several sizable film producers are already in the field, and hoping for a boom. The biggest so far, the University of Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, offers a range of subjects from The Adventure of Bunny Rabbit (for kindergarten) to thermodynamics and electrochemistry (for college students). The MARCH OF TIME is rounding out its first year of Forum Films for schools, plans eight new titles...
...they: 1) L41 is retarding normal building activity just when it is most needed; 2) the sooner the building industry gets going, the sooner it can hire the four to eight million workers it will need; 3) materials and labor will be so plentiful by the time the building boom gets under way next spring that competitive production alone will hold prices down. The whole price problem was of such prime importance that President Truman would probably have to step in to settle...
...Boom? That there is a rip roaring building boom in the making was plain to everyone. But it was equally plain that a sudden rise in prices would take the steam out of the boom. Armed with the latest and one of the most comprehensive of building surveys, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM drove that point home this week. The FORUM found that 2,778,000 families are "good prospects" to buy or build houses. Some 70% of them plan to spend less than $8,000 and more than half of them have the cash in the bank or in War Bonds...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...