Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boom. In Whiting, Ind., Mrs. Elizabeth Koby, a $42-a-week Standard Oil employe, received her two-week pay envelope, found she had been overpaid...
...boom was on. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange last week, stocks surged upward in a roaring, old-fashioned bull market. Brokers sweated ecstatically through two 2,000,000-share days and even one 2,517,340-share day, the busiest in over a year. Typical of the furious buying & selling: 1,111,570 shares changed hands in two hours, and twice during the week the tickers lagged. Up went the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 147.28, highest since May 10, 1940, when the Nazi strike into the Lowlands started the market on a long slide down...
...once, Wall Streeters unanimously agreed on the reason for the boom. D-day had touched off a buying ripple, which, had turned into a tidal wave under the fair, strong wind of cheering war news. The Street seemed confident that the end of the war was in sight. The brisk buying of "peace" stocks, notably those of I.T. & T., Packard, and all the war-busy auto companies, turned into a scramble. Most riproaring of all was Willys-Overland, which got a new boss fortnight ago, ex-Fordman Charles E. Sorensen (TIME, June 19). Day after day Willys charged ahead, helped...
Best evidence of boom was the swarm of little buyers who jumped into the market last week. Till then, the slow rise of the market had been paced by the high-priced Blue Chips (TIME, June 12). These were still popular, but they were being rapidly shouldered out by cheap stocks. On the peak day all but one of the most active stocks sold for under...
When a man is healthy, the sound of his heartbeat is a solid, relatively high-pitched bong; when he is ill, it is a dullish, soggy boom. The highest heart sound is somewhere at the bottom of the range of a bass viol; the lowest is inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long...