Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hills of Athens echoed and re-echoed to the boom of bombs. Against a sullen sky loomed the Parthenon, monument to the ruin of Europe's most serene civilization. Across it flashed the shadows of strafing Spitfires. On the sides of the Acropolis and in the streets of Athens, where British soldiers and Greek Leftists stalked each other with Tommy guns, were the ruins of the hopes born of liberation. Splashes of Greek and British blood slowly clotted on the pavements. Athens, where the word democracy (from demos, the people) first achieved political meaning, was a battleground...
From them, the buying spread right across the board as buyers looked for undervalued stocks. Sears, Roebuck and Loose-Wiles went to new highs for the year. The movie stocks, gilded by the amusement boom, climbed right along with them. Typical example: Loew's, Inc., not cheap at 71, went up ten points in the last ten days. As usual, the market was also full of bargain hunters, shopping among the cheap stocks. As a result, many of the blue chips, notably General Motors and U.S. Steel, lagged, were still below their year's peaks. Furthermore, many...
...Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong...
Following the 1943 boom and the tax-inspired buying of last spring, sales of fur coats are off sharply all over the U.S., currently running about 15% below 1943. Response to the annual August fur promotions was sluggish; and in all parts of the country, volume continued to lag in September and October...
Retailers hope that the warm autumn weather is to blame. But when cold weather strikes, the fur industry fears that its suspicion may be confirmed: that U.S. women are beginning to clutch their money a little tighter-that the boom is over...