Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Henderson became consulting economist of WPA, catching Harry Hopkins' attention with a treatise entitled "Boom or Bust." He owed his resurrection to his phenomenal vigor, and his facility for digesting great gobs of statistics, transforming them into entrancing, apparently profound diagnoses of national ills. Janizary Tommy Corcoran last year took him in hand, putting his capacities to good use for the Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee...
...lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with an eye for the smoking valleys, the shanty boats on the rivers, the boom towns, tumbled farms and vast continental curve of his country...
...John Nance Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning...
...morning last week, two hours before dawn, the boom of a gun broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...explanation of the market break was just coming over the ticker -the hasty, fear-begotten British and French military alliance with Poland. Next morning, however, newspapers gave the Angas rumor part credit for dropping prices to within a hair of the January lows. New York Attorney General Bennett subpoenaed Boom Angas for a hearing. The florid Major blandly denied having sent any general wires since March 25. He said he had only a "diminutive influence" on the market...