Word: boom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only the team be granted a coach next year, would not some such scheme be worth trying? A thorough boom of cross-country running might set it permanently on its feet, and then we should no longer need to discuss its abolition, feeling sure that we were amply and ably represented in what is, after all, one of the best and oldest forms of sport known. M. S. CROSBY...
...Noyes discussed the financial boom of 1900-1901, and the causes for the return of "public confidence" which created the speculative craze of that period. The surplus wealth, he said, saved by cautious people mindful of previous bad times, became too recklessly invested with the return of national prosperity. So inexhaustible seemed the reservoir of American capital that ambitious promoters combined already enormous companies and formed collateral trusts to give room for the investments the public was so anxious to make. Before long, however, the enormous inflation of stocks and bonds without corresponding increase in the real property behind them...