Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What His Majesty's Government ought to do, declared shrewd Melchett, is not to stage the present British public works boom jointly with the rearmament boom, but to hold back on everything that can possibly be held back and then, as the rearmament boom subsides, start up the rest by pulling out and using, one by one, a series of Depression-averting plans which should be prepared today amid Britain's relative Prosperity...
...merged as the Standard Stock & Mining Exchange, long a rival of the conservative old Toronto Stock Exchange, which dates back to 1852. With development of the great Ontario mines around Cobalt, Sudbury, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake, the wealth of the North funneled into Toronto. Thus when the greatest mining boom in Canadian history was touched off by the pound's fall from gold and the New Deal's devaluation of the dollar, Toronto was ready-set to cash...
Continuation of these talks through out April was arranged by the Guardian as a result of the wide-spread enthusiasm accorded the half-hour symposium on a new American business boom which was presented last Monday night. For the new April issue, it was announced that Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Chamberlain of the City of New York, had been induced to write an article on the same subject
...Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
Present dangers of a threatening business boom were outlined last night by Associate Professor Seymour E. Barris, and instructors Richard V. Gilbert and John K. Galbraith of the Economics Department in a radio symposium over WNAC and eleven other stations of the Yankee network...