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Word: boom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memphis Muddle | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cut-Rate Culture | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Contemplating the fantastic midwar vacation boom in Miami, asp-tongued Novelist Philip Wylie (Generation of Vipers) last week reported to the New Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midas' Return | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midas' Return | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: You Do It | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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