Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep boom of 101 guns echoed over Naples one afternoon last week. At the gate of the Royal Palace gaily uniformed guards presented arms. The blare of bugles cut the afternoon air. At 3 o'clock, a dapper equerry clicked his heels before the Palace, tied blue and white silk ribbons to the main door. From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect...
Running in its own cyclical groove, which is about twice as long as that of the general business cycle, the building industry last year recovered to about the 1931 level. Since the peak of the last boom was hit not in 1929 but in the middle 1920s this recovery was spectacular only in comparison with its incredible Depression prostration. F. W. Dodge Corp.'s figure for all types of construction in 1936 in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before...
Released last week, the Dodge figures for January 1937 showed that while approaching at an accelerated rate, the long-awaited building boom was still well around the corner. Residential contracts for the month were 20% ahead of December and more than twice the total for January 1936. But it is estimated that only 425,000 new U. S. homes will go up in 1937, barely enough to care for replacements and normal population growth without touching the huge housing deficit accumulated in the last few years. Old England, with less than one-third the population...
...continually-of bricklayers in Duluth, of ironworkers in Kansas City, of all trades in Des Moines, of various trades in such assorted communities as New York City, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, Altoona, Pa., Ann Arbor, Mich., Charleston, S. C., Tucson, Ariz. The shortage had by no means reached the boom stage, when contractors "pirate" building mechanics on their way to work, enticing them away from other contractors with extra-fancy bonuses. But the bonus wage in 1937 is no longer a half-forgotten legend...
...harem's boom days (16th Century) the Chief Black Eunuch bossed some 600 to 800 of his kind; the Sultan Validé headed 1,200 women. Of these the Sultan legally married only four, but might go a-roving among the other 1,196. To pass the time, the women-in-waiting sometimes amused themselves with the eunuchs (who were of three types), sometimes with each other. Palace plots were common, and occasionally the Sultan cleared the atmosphere by wholesale drowning. That at least one of these occurrences was of fairly recent date is indicated by the story...