Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through with banking and from now on I will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses, he is working harder than ever. Automobile accessory business curtailed. Auto-Lite is making $1 electric clocks, selling them in large lots to chainstores. All the money "lost" in all failed...
...Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year...
...Baker Boom. Fortnight ago the potent Cleveland Plain Dealer declared for the Democratic nomination and election of Newton Diehl Baker who does not encourage his Ohio friends' efforts to put him into the White House. Last week Martin L. Davey, "tree surgeon" and onetime Congressman, started a "Draft-Baker" movement in Ohio. Modest Mr. Baker again spurned the chance to be a presidential candidate, favored delegates pledged to Ohio's Governor George White, declared bread, not beer, would be the 1932 campaign issue...
...siecle crept up on weary Victorians and sent them seeking after "art for art's sake," Bunthorne withered the sunflower in Oscar Wilde's hand and made "Patience" a virtue. Later there came peers such as the House of Lords had never seen, chanting "Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!" On the other side of the world, a humane Mikado began tailoring punishments to fit the crime...
...Boom! and Boom!-thundered cartridge after cartridge. But a whole day of blasting left still standing two towers of the Cathedral of the Christ Redeemer. Next day they crashed. By the end of next year the Palace of Soviets will be ready for the future "World Revolution of the World Proletariat...