Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuels, textiles, and diesel locomotives-and only the U.S. could supply them. U.S. sales had rocketed to $166,000,000 last year, four times as high as in 1945. No figures were out for this year's first quarter, but B.A. experts reckoned that 1947 U.S. sales would zoom a further...
Like all other roads, the Pennsy had watched its revenues decline and its costs zoom since war's end. Thus, while the Pennsy's total 1946 operating revenue of $822 million (down $114 million from 1945) set a new peacetime high, so did its operating expenses...
...sold for $4,300,000. (Lazarus also got an option on another site tagged at $1,250,000, talked Woolworth's into buying it for $3,000,000.) With Foley's he plans to test his newest theory that department stores must mechanize or operating costs will zoom when the current abnormal volume falls...
...state) did a business of $320,000,000, up almost 500% over 1939. This year it expects to gross $400,000,000, making it even with Chicago as the nation's second biggest fashion center. Some sunny Californians predict that California's dress business will zoom in a few years to a round billion, not far behind New York's, biggest in the world...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...