Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boom's Beginning. It had been a curious process which in a few months had raised Alfred Mossman Landon from Kansas obscurity to national prominence as far & away the likeliest GOPossibility. Still honestly dazed by it. Governor Landon explains: "We didn't do anything at first. We just sat back and it all happened...
...dwelling units. By now, what with the increase in population and the almost complete cessation of building for several years, that surplus has turned into a housing deficit of 2,000,000 units. That figure is the underpinning for most of the talk about a building boom...
When, in Paris, where his deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...
Economically the taxation of undistributed corporation profits appears to be sound, from the point of view of mitigating the severity of booms, and consequent depressions. The Times editorial's fear that the tax would stunt the growth of American industry and restrict the opportunities for new employment seems silly in view of the fact that the receivers of dividends would still have the opportunity to reinvest these profits through the ordinary channels of the investment market, the only difference being that this market, and not the views of the management of the corporations, should decide in what industries to invest...
Speed of the automobile radio boom is clocked by the fact that the industry is now talking hopefully of a 1936 production of 2,000,000 sets compared to an estimate of more than 4,000,000 for household units. Since about 4,500,000 cars will probably be sold this year, nearly one out of every two may carry a radio as naturally as a spare tire...