Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handicapped by this lack of practice, the Crimson trailed badly at halftime, and except for brief spurts at the beginning and end of the fourth period, could never catch fire and start a scoring spree...
...Boston Symphony could make no recordings-first because it did not belong to James Caesar Petrillo's musicians' union, and then because it did. Last week, with the recording ban finally lifted (TIME, Nov. 20) and the U.S. record-buying public about to go on a shopping spree, Koussevitzky & Co. were hard at work on a brand-new version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Keeping pace, the Philadelphia Orchestra was waxing Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Seventh and Dvorak's New World symphonies...
...traditional opening date for Christmas shoppers, hundreds of counters already had that picked-over look. Now, every day, from the halls of Bullock's-Wilshire to the floors of Marshall Field's, surging regiments of customers joined in the nation's greatest early-season buying spree...
...Department of Commerce deflated the four-year-old notion that U.S. sho pers have been on a four-year buying spree. Estimating retail sales for 1944, the Department predicted that the quantity of goods bought this year would be only 15% greater than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over...
...came to a country rich in everything they had done without for more than three years. They came with only the barest minimum of supplies. They started requisitioning. Some started looting. Some got drunk and started taking women. For a while the Red Army went on something like a spree...