Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamonic's bow, swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...
...Manhattan's tabloid Daily News supplied the name for him: dark, dapper Henry Lustig, millionaire operator of the plushy, well-stocked, high-priced Longchamps chain (twelve restaurants in New York). Said the News: Treasury agents are investigating Lustig for alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes ($1,500,000 in one; $50,000 in another...
Last week the U.S. plunged headlong into a season of Gershwin such as no composer has ever had before. It premised to outdin by far the boom of Mozart (aided & abetted by the phonograph companies) four years ago on the 150th anniversary of his death, and the 1941 Tin Pan Alley reglorification of Tchaikovsky which finally led to a tune called Everybody Makes Money but Tchaikovsky...
Actually there were no signs last week of a stockmarket boom. Investors were still able to find stocks in Wall Street that yield 4 to 6% in dividends. Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) sold at $63 a share compared to a 1939 top of $53.50, although Chairman Ralph W. Gallagher told stockholders that profits for the first six months of 1945 might run higher than the $71 million ($2.60 a share) earned in the same period last year.' And General Electric Co.'s President Charles Edward Wilson has repeatedly said that G.E.'s postwar annual gross sales...
...falls below a level which will support high employment, the Labor Committee, suggests putting more cash into consumer hands, either through paying back excise taxes or forgiving income taxes which are still to be paid. Conversely, it would pass a graduated spending tax to come into effect if a boom got under...