Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were other more important reasons. Wartime taxes had been much stiffer in Canada than in the U.S.; Canada had done a much better job freezing wages and keeping them frozen. Thus it had held down the amount of cash that might otherwise have fueled a postwar inflationary spending spree. Moreover, Canadians are by tradition a more law-abiding people than U.S. citizens, have refused to deal extensively in black markets...
...women who could spend more than $200 on their promenade outfits-and there were thousands of them-a shopping spree wasn't complete without a new fur piece. In Denver, Daniels & Fisher couldn't keep up with the demand for $875-to-$1,740 sable scarves...
...builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...
...baseball's first real spring training spree since 1942, and never had so many been after so few jobs. The sun-brown Florida shopkeepers and orange pickers who watch Grapefruit League exhibition games nodded sagely: it looked like a good season...
Nyaaa! In Houston, motorists went on a five-day park-anywhere spree. Reason: police had run out of prescribed parking tickets...