Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while church suppers, CCF dances, an occasional four-year-old movie broke the monotony. But the routine palled, and Simmians, their pockets bulging with grain checks, were in a spending mood. The bright lights of bustling Swift Current (pop. 6,000) beckoned. Simmians were ready for a spree...
Every beggar now has two or three 100-yen notes, once as rare in Japan as a $100 bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...
...airlines rolled merrily along on their plane-buying spree. Last week Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. announced another $7,000,000 in orders for Martin 202s. Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp., which had already ordered 35, signed up for 15 more. Braniff Airways bought...
...drop in federal spending had failed to halt the tremendous momentum of the economy. It rolled on like a great water wheel, gushing out money. It rolled into retail stores, movies, bank accounts. And much of it rolled out again to gas up the gaudiest Christmas spending spree in years. Yet, as store shelves were swept clean, there was little, as yet, in the cupboard to fill them up again...
...even these figures did not fully reflect the wild spending of the nation's buying spree. Said one Los Angeles retailer: "God knows what would happen if we could get everything we could sell...