Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom in the middle 1920?3 Miami frontage was worth more than any other land on the face of the globe. Justification of the prices at which this land was changing hands daily would have required fully-rented buildings 200 stories high. Nearby in the midst of this financial bedlam blossomed an incredible development?Coral Gables, a city of planned perfection that was to be no less than a "paradise on earth." Last week in Washington in its investigation of protective committees, the Securities & Exchange Commission wrote a few new chapters of paradisiacal history...
Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
Instanter a dull market became a buying bedlam. Stocks soared, shorts were squeezed, new crowds appeared in brokers' boardrooms. Government bonds cracked, endangering the current $2,400,000,000 refunding operations. Foreign exchange markets in London, Paris and Manhattan were suddenly overturned as the dollar plummeted. Pound sterling, which had been sinking alarmingly for days, shot up 5½? to $4.78 in a few moments. The U. S. Stabilization Fund desperately dumped hundreds of millions of francs...
Cuba sent a gunboat, a naval training ship and the presidential yacht. The U. S. landed the officers and crews of three Coast Guard cutters and the destroyer Taylor. The foreign quarter at Ybor City was a bedlam of screeching Latins. Twenty-five thousand civilians, gesticulating madly swarmed out to a vast public enclosure of pavilions illuminated all night with blue & red electric lights. Thus last week did Tampa begin celebrating the golden jubilee of its cigar industry...
...entire floor of Rome's modernistic Ministry of Corporations clatters all day with the ordered bedlam of statistical machines. Last week they rang up a total of exactly 155,518 Italians re-employed since Oct. 16 as a direct result of an experiment begun that day by the Corporative State...