"boom or bust" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1911, Albert Bull, Sound Business, page 142:",
          "text": "I don't know if it would work out that way, but I know the grocery store would “boom or bust.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Blair Moody, Boom or Bust, page 317:",
          "text": "After the war, it will be boom or bust! The United States kept laissez-faire too long and it let us drift into a precarious predicament.",
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      "form": "more boom or bust",
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      "form": "most boom or bust",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1970, “Problems of Capacity, Pulping Processes, Computerization”, in American Paper Industry, volume 52, page 33:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Blair Moody, Boom or Bust, page 317:",
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