Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since this statement was made in boom times, a sudden change in attitude toward mass meetings by the H.A.A. would seem inconsistent. Encouragement of noisy exhibitionism at the present time would only be construed as a desperate bid for increased financial support...
...given market of the summer of 1929, was used jointly by the securities company's subsudiary abd by Shermar Corp., † the Wiggin family holding company, to sell holdings of Chase stock. It sold over 50,000 shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...
...savings went to pay for the funeral. She settled rebelliously down in Micmac, went back to work to get more money. When she met young Larry, bank teller in the local cathedral of commerce, the weather seemed a little brighter. Larry was a steady young fellow but those were boom days: the funny business that his superior banksters were involved in finally dragged him in too. When the boom broke and the bank was caught in the rush. Larry went to jail with the rest. But Deena was waiting for him when he came...
...needs of this new economic society. Plan it, regulate it in any direction but semi-public utilities, and you destroy its internal harmony, you set loose productive forces whose sole control comes in collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States our specious boom is already aggravated by the disposition of banks and credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism", and I hope...
...more. Vice President John Melvin Laird of Connecticut General Life observed that responsible companies have grown shy of underwriting jumbos, that they are a dangerous risk even in normal times. Said he: "Statistics show that the death rate on this type was excessive on issues of the 'boom' decade carried to the anniversary of 1930. The experience includes a period of generally favorable mortality and excludes practically all the Depression. Nevertheless the mortality on persons insured for $1,000,000 or more was 169% of the normal. Clearly there was something wrong even before the Depression...