Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest point since November 1938, while the rail averages were at a new year high, back to August 1937 levels. The Dow-Jones average of 40 bonds soared to 106.1-the highest peak since 1915 when the series was started. War babies and peace stocks equally shared the boom. Surplus money had found another haven, where it made even more surplus...
...bought the Mobeley Hotel in Cisco, Tex., on the eve of the Texas oil boom. This deal set the future Hilton pattern-step in when the boom is starting and the property value low, make it pay, unload at the peak. He applied this pattern to a long series of small Texas and New Mexico hotels, putting the profits of one into the purchase price of the next...
Thanks to the basketball boom, hundreds of bookies (threatened with the necessity of working for their living after the racing ban) have gone on doing business at their old stands in Chicago, Kansas City, Providence, Boston, Minneapolis and points south & west. The cagey Minneapolis bookies will not touch a New York or Boston game-because, they...
...converted horse players are not without their complaints. Croaked one of Sammy Wolf's converts last week: "This basketball, it gives them all heart trouble. Ya see, a horse race, it starts, then bing, it's over in a few seconds. But the basketball starts, and boom, one team makes a basket. Boom, the second team makes a basket. Boom, the first team makes a basket. And this goes on for an hour. I tell ya, they're all getting heart trouble...
Gregory Peck, who appeared previously in the unfortunate "Days of Glory," in which he had to shout his pretty nothings above the boom of cannon, has the quiet reserve and the shy grin of Gary Cooper; which is not to say that he is a second-rate Cooper--he's just a duplicate and will end up in westerns...