Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stout, glad-handed Park Commissioner John B. Vesey of Memphis, wanted his city to have 1) the largest zoo in the U.S., 2) an eye-catching art collection. With the zoo the Commissioner was doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25,000 in good taxpayers' cash for "old masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered...
This was smart business. Most of the paintings were flower pieces, rural landscapes, near abstractions, street-scenes-with-elevated. A few were by the clenched-fist school. Some were competent and some were remarkably bad. But, good or bad, the wartime boom had long since included a heavy demand for cut-rate culture on the wall (TIME, Sept...
Contemplating the fantastic midwar vacation boom in Miami, asp-tongued Novelist Philip Wylie (Generation of Vipers) last week reported to the New Republic...
...flooding war-boom, which had gradually engulfed city after city across the U.S., was now lapping finally into the last sancta of the rich in Miami-and in New York. Even in the most gilded of joints the service was bad; and at the bars coarse new characters joggled the Martini-bent arms of the Older Members...
...from 45? to 60? a lb., handed over supervision to the Brazilian Government. Jungle-baffled Americans had got less rubber out of Amazonia than they had hoped. Native rubbermen predicted that jungle-wise Brazilians, seeing a profit in the higher price, might beat the record production of the rubber boom 32 years...