Anyhow, the U.S. had one full-blown boom to report. The nation's 25,000 practicing astrologers were doing their biggest business ever.
Plain people were willing to pay seers up to $50 a session to learn how to get rich, and rich people sent their secretaries to find out how to stay that way. (One Boston chartist reportedly took in $50,000 in 1945 from Wall Streeters alone.) Customers included top diplomats who wanted to know world-policy trends, and movie stars curious about 1946 box-office statistics.
Applicants for personal readings, mailorder horoscopes, etc. waited from...
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