Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which the 1939 crop is short, and Chicago packers were passing up orders from abroad because the British had fixed their prices below the level to which last week's speculative boom had pushed domestic prices...
Bolivia, not quite over the shock of losing its dictator, half-German Germán Busch, by suicide (Time, Sept. 4), was the only Latin-American country to get the jitters. It restricted imports, curtailed gold shipments, prohibited speculation. But its tin and copper were expected to boom...
...where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall, he spread before him a map of Poland and, as once again he heard the boom of cannon on the Western front, he began sticking little colored pins along the battlefronts...
Foreign Orders. By week's end, war commodities were booming. The basis for this boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...
...Daniel Boone used to crow about Kentucke, the famous Kentucky history which first printed his "autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...