Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drama of adult talk and challenging ideas. But the theme both hampers the plot and holds aloof from it. The love story lacks fullness. The women lack freedom. They live only in hurried, gasping moments of crisis-and in an atmosphere too often dominated by proclamations, rioting and the boom of guns...
...Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...
...Chodorov, producer of such scripts as "Junior Miss" and "My Sister Elleen." In this attempt Chodorov does not stoop to satisfying the public for the sake of pecuniary gains, but launches out on an attack of the fascist interests at work in promoting social unrest in America's crowded boom towns...
Business began to boom for the Bureau when, in 1940,--students were banned from further use of commercial tutoring services. Within two years, many of the men who actually needed help and had been ensnared by the schools came over to the University facilities, giving the Bureau the high total of 538 men assisted...
...paralyzing blizzards (down to -40°). To scratch a living, a man must be both tough and lucky. North Dakotans are also hardheaded. They know all about poverty. Wealth is fine while it lasts. But next year -or the year after-hard times may come again. While the present boom continues, practical citizens have paid off mortgages ($33 million in the last four years), oversubscribed by 81% on "E" bonds in the Fourth War Loan Drive, and stuffed the state's little, weathered banks with $300 million...