Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...
...River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
...naval drive had reached a point below Matang, 250 miles away from Hankow, where the Chinese have blocked the river with timbers, sunken junks and hunks of concrete. Eleven other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo to defend Hankow against a Yangtze assault, breathed easier as the rain-swollen river itself came to his aid, spilled over and drove several Japanese landing parties back...
...Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their determination, continued bad times might succeed. 2) Building material prices last week hit a new low since 1936. In Franklin Roosevelt's last lecture on prices he remarked that a sharp increase in building costs last year nipped a promising building boom. Probably the most optimistic sign on the U. S. business horizon last week was the fact that building contracts in May were 27.5% over April 1938 and 16% over...
...prices, f.o.b. Chengtu, range between 25 and 180 American dollars per head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously high.*. . . Panda pelts are a drug on the market. Yesterday I was offered four, at 8 American dollars apiece. . . . Since the bottom may drop out of the giant panda boom, the natives have been tipped off to be on the lookout for live specimens of the golden-haired monkey, another animal peculiar to this region which heretofore has never been kept successfully in captivity...