Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was no buying spree. What, then, was all this talk that something had to be done to close an inflationary gap which Leon Henderson estimated at $17,000,000,000? Why must they save twice as much, be taxed twice as much to keep from blowing the price ceiling to smithereens...
...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
...relics. (Only 5% of this material is displayed for the museum's 2,500,000 yearly visitors.) A Smithsonian zoologist last week estimated that the alcohol required to preserve the chosen animals for the duration would be enough to provide the entire Japanese army with a 24-hour spree...
...dawns again for the Tuttles when they salvage a cargo vessel, loaded with gasoline and other stores, abandoned by its crew in a hurricane. With their 400,000 francs prize money, they open a joint checking account, and the wackiest spending spree Tahiti ever...
Trailing 42-10 at mid-time, the Crimson five rallied behind Dean Hennessy's scoring spree to within eight points of the Yale yearlings, who then found their own scoring stopped by desperate Freshman guards. The closing gun found the Elis harassed, but well in front of the surprised Yardlings...