Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...
...surpasses that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office on the tide of such biblical quotations...
...drop in metals pretty well completed the deflation of last spring's commodity boom, the root of current business troubles. Cash wheat was down from $1.60 to $1.23 per bu.; corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from...
Like Samuel Gompers in his later years, Mr. Green was not greatly oppressed nor did he struggle very hard. Unions thrive during periods of recovery but his first nine years in office were a period of first boom and then depression, and A. F. of L. memberships shrank steadily from 2,800,000 to 2,100,000. During that era corruption and abuse permeated several craft unions but Labor politics made it hard for Bill Green to take action even against known A. F. of L. racketeers. His crowning ineptness was that unlike John L. Lewis, he never learned...
...high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost but 52? in the boom year...