Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fought with Capitalistic weapons. First labor organization to founder in this foreign field was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers which sank $20,000,000 of its hundred-million resources in Florida's swamps in 1926. Total resources of the 22 Labor banks showed a decrease even in the boom years...
...within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last week Lord Boom, successor to Lord Byng, spared the ears of the Press by saying nothing at all, sailed for Canada on a business trip...
...Walter Evans Edge appealed to him to serve on a correctional committee. Morrow accepted, became chairman, finally knew more about prison conditions than any layman in the country. From then on his duties came thick & fast. He was sent all over the State by Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo to boom War Saving Stamps. Soon after, President Wilson put him on the Allied Maritime Transport Council, sent him to Europe. Here again Morrow proved himself fast analyst and smooth conciliator...
...trading by brokers in Throgmorton Street. Soon the expected fact appeared that the fall of the pound was occasioning a rise in the price of securities quoted in pounds. Once this law of nature was tested and found to be working properly, London 'Change was opened with a boom. Government bonds were firm, industrials soared, British bankers relaxed and grew self-righteous. "There can be just as much integrity," ran an unctuous phrase heard often in the City last week, "there can be just as much integrity in a pound worth $4 as in a pound worth $4.86." British...
...guide us." On the same platform sat Mr. C.H. Minor, representing International General Electric. "Bryan was right!" cried he. "Bryan was merely ahead of his time." Other Britons taking these cues, there was soon in full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold...