Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise is typical of the railroads' wartime boom. The stream of freight to Southern industries and troops to & from Southern camps boosted L. & N.'s gross from $88 million in 1939 to $178 million for the first ten months of 1944. Net profits this year should run well over $15 million, double those of five years...
...early '30s, took advantage of the easy-money market to cut annual interest charges from $1,500.000. to $650,000. Sales, which amounted to $122,000,000 in 1942, will pass $145,000,000 this year. Dart, taking no credit to himself, attributes the gain to the war boom and says that the results of his improvements are yet to be reflected. But profits before taxes rose from $7,520,092 in 1942 to $10,066,640 last year. Thus United was in shape to expand again...
...Angeles Railway pay. Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, as trustees for the Huntington estate, became operators of the system, held on until the war boom in traction companies brought the chance to sell...
...wartime book boom which began in 1942 burgeoned to new peaks this year. Almost every published book was sold, and many a title would have sold far more copies if paper had been available to print them. Despite competition of movies, magazines and radio, more U.S. citizens were reading more books than ever before...
Escape. More than ever, in the stress & strain of war, people were reading to be entertained, to escape from their everyday worries. Reprints, marketed at 25? by newsstands and drugstores, remained the prime phenomenon of the boom. Mystery stories bulked steadily larger in the reprint publishers' output. And comic books far outsold the mysteries...