Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...
...hope of evening up production, leveling out employment, extending the selling season. Automobile executives did not feel able to refuse the Administration's request after concessions made to them in the disputed Section 7A of the late NRA. With the early show and a pre-Christmas motor boom, fourth quarter sales may reach 900,000. Forecasts of 1936 production range from a modest 4,000,000 to a generous 4,500,000. The industry increased production 45% in 1934 over 1933, and will make nearly a 40% increase in 1935 over...
...boom investment and production is not strong enough overwhelmingly to counter-act these inevitable rigidities, then Labor Unions will conquer in their unconscious attempts to make unemployment as large as possible, and Capitalists will gain a splendid victory in contracting production as much as is monopolistically profitable and possible...
...companies for $17,000. Last week he could have sold these shares for $29,000. Even had the investor made his purchase as recently as Sept. 3, the last six weeks would have brought him an appreciation of $4,600. Last week's developments in the agricultural implement boom included...
...total almost equal to the domestic sales for 1930. Profits, and even dividends, have returned to the farm implement industry for the first time since 1930 and another section of U. S. business has definitely turned Depression's corner. Noteworthy among the companies which have shared this boom...