Word: boom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After boasting that the unfavorable Irish trade balance is steadily declining, and that Irish mercantile business is on the boom, President Cosgrave dwelt upon the present hydro-electric development of the River Shannon, chiefly famed as a theme for lachrymal Irish sentiment...
...second half year begins, a backward survey suggests that the most significant business and financial feature of the first six months of 1928 was not the boom of stocks, but the number and scope of corporate mergers. The stock market strength of securities depends upon the strength of the underlying business ventures and by mergers those ventures have strengthened themselves. Some significant mergers, acquisitions, or consolidations this half year have been...
...eager are the trial-goers that many stand in line all night to obtain small pink tickets good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
...cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...
...seven States in the Colorado Basin agree that it would be advantageous to obtain Federal development and control of their common natural resource. But California, a boom state, presses for immediate action. And Arizona, slow-growing, temporizes to protect its future...