Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total operating revenue of $157,700,000 was $3,000,000more than for the same period of 1936. But its net railway operating income of $24,200,000 (before fixed charges) was $3,000,000 less. In the past month the depression has nipped revenues still further. Because of boom times in the spring the B. & O.'s 1937 carloading total was about 5% over 1936. But during the third week in December the line handled only 29,000 cars against 42,000 in the same week last year...
...last year [1936] the authorities in Washington came to the conclusion, for reasons best known to themselves, that there was danger of an inflationary boom. . . . They proceeded to administer a series of shocks to the markets of the world which by midsummer this year had succeeded in completely shattering confidence...
Irene's husband, Supreme Court Justice Carter Hibbard (Walter Connolly), has reached the time of life when his chief interests are chronic indigestion and listening to the Whoops Family on the radio. But Lucy realizes that the only way to keep Irene from booming young Senator Keane (Victor Jory) into a Presidential threat is to inaugurate a rival boom for Irene's husband. Last-minute legerdemain with a previous marriage of Irene's cuts short the boomeranging boom by intimating that, as husband of a woman whose foreign divorce has no legal standing, Justice Hibbard has been...
...potent Boss Edward Crump (TIME, Nov. 1), he was roundly defeated. If Finis Garrett had stayed in the House in 1928, he would almost certainly have been elected Speaker by the Democratic majority of 1931. If Finis Garrett had been Speaker, John Nance Garner would not have been boomed for the Presidency in 1932. Without the Garner boom the famed deal whereby California and Texas delegations gave their support to Franklin Roosevelt at the Chicago Convention of 1932 would have been impossible. Without the Hearst-Garner-McAdoo deal, Franklin Roosevelt might never have become President...
What this fact proves about U. S. mores is debatable. What it proves about the U. S. construction business is entirely clear. The U. S. housing boom, hopefully anticipated long before construction reached its 1934 Depression low of 50,000 units a year from a 1925 high of 950,000 units, has signally failed to materialize...