Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assorted littlewigs had propped their feet on legislative desks, were deep in the pages of the Jackson Daily News. But Fustianeer Bilbo ranted on. Stepping gingerly as Agag through the bad eggs of his logic, he somehow managed to: 1) praise Franklin Roosevelt, 2) damn Eleanor Roosevelt, 3) boom Term IV, 4) denounce New Deal bureaucracy, 5) predict bloody postwar race riots, 6) deny that U.S. Negroes have any right to vote. Typical Bilboisms...
...From 1933 to 1942 you rode high. You were tops. A friendly Administration in Washington. All sorts of favors fed to you daily from the Washington political table. Management weak and intimidated. So what did you do with your power? On the economic side you gave yourselves a labor boom, regardless of the consequences to any other element in the population. On the moral side you produced men like Browne and Bioff and Scalise who gave all labor a black...
Harold Stassen wrote home every other day. But until this week he had not answered the $75,000-a-year question: What was he planning to do about the Stassen Presidential boom? Instead, good Navy-man Stassen had talked only of other things. Principally, he wanted to know every linguistic gem of 2-year-old Kathleen Stassen, who is launching timidly into speech. Presumably, however, he had ways to know that the first big test of his candidacy was coming up and that the news was not too hopeful...
...they never seem to wear out." And there was little demand for a longtime Porter mainstay, a fireless locomotive that ran on stored steam. So he started to make things that did wear out, pressure vessels, evaporators, etc., for the chemical, food and oil industries. But when the war boom hit, he hastily revised his ideas about locomotives...
Author Traub predicts a postwar boom because roller skating is a good boy-meets-girl sport...