Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies, in step with sugar, leased thousands of acres for exploration. In May 1920, when the dance was maddest, people suddenly began to talk of Europe's next sugar-beet crop. By December the crop was a reality-nearly 50% larger than the year before. Cuba's boom was over; private fortunes went down the spout with the island's banking system; the dream of large-scale oil production faded and concessions remained virtually unexplored...
...Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug and patriarch. He belongs to six golf...
...sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills' net never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last week, on General Mills' tenth anniversary, President Donald D. Davis released the company's financial statement for fiscal 1938 (ending May 31). Net income was $4,110,631, $192,758 below...
...them as rapidly as they have the last three doctors' autobiographies: William N. MacArtney's Fifty Years a Country Doctor, Chevalier Jackson's autobiography, Arthur Emanuel Hertzler's The Horse and Buggy Doctor-the possible beginning of a trend that may yet make the late boom in foreign correspondents' memoirs look sick...
Last week, with the primary almost at hand (July 23), organized Labor belatedly was out to deflate Candidate O'Daniel's sudden, sensational boom by recalling how he sponsored an open-shop movement in Fort Worth. When his rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that...