Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.I.s were known to be selling Army gasoline in the French black market (TIME, Oct. 2). But even before MPs cracked down, the quantities were not enough to fuel more than a small share of the flagrant boom in pleasure driving. As more & more civilian cars appeared around Paris nightclubs, the scandal-perceptive French began to smell something...
...became a success again, made him enemies. The Navy gave him a U.S. fleet (the Seventh) and the Australian Squadron. Once he spoke unguardedly of ''my Navy" and the proud Navy found it hard to forgive him. There was a time, especially while the MacArthur-for-President boom was being drummed up in the States, when the name of Douglas MacArthur was not always cheered in Navy wardrooms...
...lily boom, and a brand-new industry. On the West Coast, in Louisiana and Florida, people who never grew anything in their lives are now raising bulbs. The reason: the war cut off the 22 to 25 million lily bulbs which...
...long will the boom last? The Department of Agriculture estimates this year's lily-bulb crop at no more than 3,000,000. At the present rate of expansion it would take about five years, with careful cultivation, to meet the demand, and bring prices down. Even then, bulb growers believe that Japan will never regain her monopoly of the U.S. market...
...current stockmarket boom has furnished a plushy cushion for seats on the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, an exchange membership sold for $75,000, up $3,000 in three weeks. The price of seats has almost doubled in a year, is now the highest since November...