Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What a chance we in management missed! From 1921 to 1930 we had everything all our own way. A friendly Administration in Washington. Low taxes. And a friendly public. And what did we do with our power? On the economic side we gave this country a balloon boom that had to burst. On the moral side we produced men like Insull and Hopson and Musica, who undermined confidence in business...
Finance Expert Clark was arguing for a firm postwar international agreement on currency. But he was also driving home the point that Canada, more than most countries, must trade to live. In a war boom that has swelled Canada's exports to more than five billion dollars, the hard facts of Canada's prewar trade were forgotten. Then Canada was the best U.S. customer. But she financed her essential U.S. purchases, serviced her American debt by her trade with Britain. Sterling balances in London were converted to U.S. dollars...
...Senate last week Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg protested the fact that the Army's War College Library had just recommended for soldier readers a magazine article bitterly hostile to General Douglas MacArthur and his Presidential boom. In the American Mercury a freelancing writer named John McCarten* had belittled General MacArthur's talents and charged that "the worst elements on the political right, including its most blatant lunatic fringe, are whooping it up for MacArthur...
Gullible or desperate tourists paid sharpers from $5 to $15 for "reservations" (the relief trains had no reserved seats). Florida's black market business in regular Pullman reservations continued to boom. Up rose President Andrew G. O'Rourke of the Greater Miami Hotel Association to declare: most of the black market ticket-selling was the work of "an unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar...
...these steps are directed against Ontario's "wheedle whackers" -high-pressure speculative mining-stock promoters who sell by direct mail and long distance telephone. They have been riding Toronto's current stock boom. Complaints about their operations have poured in all the way from Portland on the Pacific to Halifax on the Atlantic...