Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinct efforts to put the bank on its feet by speculation. They speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they got in on the Wall Street boom, making so much that, even though they lost much in the crash, Wall Street gave them no coup de grace...
...their practical solution," Congress in 1915 created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a group of experts now numbering 15, appointed by the President to serve without pay. In theory, the committee is the semi-official laboratory of all U. S. aviation?Governmental and commercial. Since aviation's boom year of 1927, this Committee's annual appropriations have increased from $513,000 to $1,053,790. Best known products of its laboratory at Langley Field, Va. are NACA wing sections and the NACA engine cowling which first won fame on Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's transcontinental speed flights...
...what Mr. Farrell said about price-structure had the most direct relation to Industry's question of the hour: Must wages come down everywhere and drastically? In his eloquent address, Bethlehem's President Schwab had said: "We have had a stabilized wage rate since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This...
...Boom prospects attracted to Las Vegas, along with many another adventurer, one Blair Coan, onetime handyman of the Republican National Committee. He bobbed up in Las Vegas to start a newspaper. In Los Angeles to buy printing equipment, Blair Coan declared of Las Vegas...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories at No. 463 West St., Manhattan. Anyone trying it out goes into a small pitch dark booth and waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai...