Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the town of Boom, in Belgium, the Germans fled across the last bridge still standing over the Rupel River. Rear guards clambered under the bridge, set dynamite charges, began to string a detonating wire to a safe distance, a minute or two away. But they had been seen. A patriot slipped out from his hiding place in the bushes, ducked under the bridge, whittled at the wire with his pocket knife, severed it, scurried away. Moments later British patrols crossed the bridge, heard from Boom's Maquis the story of their hero. He was eleven years...
...robbed by a bomb of a tradition it cherished, or of the classics it loved. Fortnight ago, in St. Martin's Lane, a reborn Old Vic opened in a blaze of glory, and helped a theater slump, brought on by the robombs, to turn back into a boom...
When the date of the 1944 Presidential election began to draw too close for such legal hairsplitting, Mr. Hillman had organized the non-labor National Citizens P.A.C. partially as a sort of holding company for campaign funds. This move satisfied the Hillman lawyers that the N.C.P.A.C. could boom the Roosevelt-Truman ticket as much as it liked and remain within: 1) the Hatch Act; 2) the Smith-Connally amendment to the Corrupt Practices...
...experts did not count on the war-boom traffic. Entirely out of earnings, in 1942 and 1943 Great Northern reduced its $100 million 1946 maturity by $43 million. After the refinancing. Great Northern's funded debt will total $249 million...
Stockbrokers were sternly warned last week against rumormongering. The warning came from Emil Schram, NewYork Stock Exchange's president, who fears that a speculative boom in low-priced securities might: 1) collapse and rob a lot of small investors of their savings; 2) bring demands for even more stringent Government control of the Exchange...