Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experienced calm to battling his second depression. Most spectacular moves in the campaign were two talks with the heads of two huge Eastern utilities companies (see p. 14).. Then came the President's message to Congress calling for legislation to encourage private capital to start a private housing boom (see p. 18). On the pressing subject of taxes, the President announced that he favored the revision being discussed in .the House as soon as "Congress is ready." A balanced budget in 1939 would be a business stimulant. The President reiterated to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley his insistence that...
...history of photography has been marked by spectacular jumps in popularity, but this miniature camera boom exceeds anything I have seen in my fifty years of experience in photography," he said...
...week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks ago and defended by the Kianyin forts. The second line of Chinese defense ran last week from these forts to Wusih. Much of the Hindenburg Line had not yet given way when Generalissimo Chiang abruptly decided that...
While it cannot be denied that to great many students Memorial Church is still only a place where bells boom early in the morning and throughout the day in stuttering echo to Memorial Hall's throaty clamor, neither can Dr. Sperry's interesting statistics be denied. Unquestionably, each recent year has seen an increase in the number of students participating in Harvard's religious affairs. The reason for this increase is probably a matter of individual progress or taste; it is the trend which is significant...
...strongest hope for the creation of an adequate dynamic for democracy," they say, referring to the current boom in adult education...