Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked of for the 1932 Presidential nomination. His boom died without an echo, but he had accumulated enough momentum for a full Senate term...
Hellzapoppln (produced by Olsen & Johnson) is a cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third clay at Gettysburg. Billed as a "screamlined revue," it roars into action with bullets, bombs and sounds of heavy artillery backstage. Radios blare, sound films boom, gorillas growl, vendors hawk tickets for rival shows, people race across the stage, plunge down the aisles, dive among the audience, ride horseback in boxes...
Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...
...axiom seemed due for testing. The networks began 1938 handsomely, ran up the biggest first quarter of their careers (11.4% above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping the $45,551,198 of 1937's first eight months. With no more than the fall contracts already...
...Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark but it had the disadvantage of being separated from Manhattan by a tedious, 15-mile series of traffic snags and bottlenecks...