Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the 15 state programs, comprehensive peacetime aviation courses are now offered by at least 240 U.S. colleges and universities, are being planned by at least 80 more. Equally responsible for this national boom is the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which has helped to set up courses through which, some 300,000 students have already received a year's training. The Army Air Forces is cooperating by sending eight demonstration teams and vans full of training equip ment on a three-month tour of schools in 103 U.S. cities. The A.A.F. has already started giving millions of dollars...
Ration Note. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, the specialists who remove foreign objects from digestive tracts reported a wartime boom in chicken-and fish-bones...
...Personnel quietly polled representative laboratories, including most of the top-ranking ones, for a conservative estimate of their plans and needs. All the laboratories, instead of cutting back, hope to enlarge their staffs at war's end. Total planned increase: 20%. The biggest laboratories, convinced of a research boom in postwar business, expect to hire about three times as many scientists as they did before...
...hidden boom. The Federal Reserve Board is well aware that market averages, because they take into account only a few stocks, no longer show the overall rise in stock values as they once...
...bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...