Word: bustingly
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...like locusts. The magazines did not have to be too good; they sold anyway. They also sold like hot cakes to the forces overseas, and in camps at home. But by last week things were getting back to normal, and many a publisher's wartime boom was going bust...
...butter and cheese which he estimated would cost the public an annual $250 million. They listened as U.A.W.'s Chrysler workers, who had won an 18½? wage boost in January, served notice of another wage demand. The Washington economists, who had hoped they could prevent a boom & bust, saw the spiral still spiraling upwards...
...push prices up by raising wages and curtailing production, a general buyers' strike might well be in the making. A short one might be a good thing. A long one would end all Washington's worries about the boom. In that case, Washington could concentrate on the bust...
...clear. As vice president of France, he sits in the fussy luxury of the Hotel Matignon, which Austro-Hungarian ambassadors occupied before 1914. The Gobelin tapestries on the walls neither fit nor affect his revolutionary ardor. He doesn't even know the name of the Roman Emperor whose bust faces him. When Thorez laughs (he is one of the few Marxists who laugh), his bellow shakes the air, and the imperial chandelier tinkles...
...when the customer stopped buying after World War I, because prices were too high, Mr. Voorhees and all other businessmen know what happened. The boom turned into a bust...