Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phase of this question is discussed by John E. Dodge '38 in an article entitled "Autonomy of Art", in which he deplores the unfortunate tendency on the part of critics to boom all American art, regardless of its merit. A full page drawing by Alfonso Ossorio '38 symbolizes a medley of opinions...
...boom times Fortune Gallo had three companies on the road. He gave debuts to Queena Mario and Richard Bonelli. And this winter Soprano Charlotte Symons, another San Carlo product, will make her Metropolitan debut. Gallo's pride is that in 25 years his troupers have missed only one performance, when a train was derailed in Texas. Gallo's wire from Manhattan: "Is scenery hurt...
...seeking real investment. The funds were merely adding to the money glut by increasing excess member bank reserves, already amounting to $2,800,000,000. If bankers could find borrowers, those reserves would permit an expansion of credit to ten times $2,800,000,000 and create a boom that would dwarf the 1920's. Such a runaway boom is what most people mean when they talk about Inflation...
...date. A stiff sinking fund provision may well retire the whole issue before it falls due in 1950. In addition to an annual sinking-fund appropriation of $1,000,000, Anaconda will apply 20% of its profits for the next 15 years (with certain limitations) to debt retirement. In boom years when copper profits are fattest, Anaconda will be spending millions buying in its bonds-a shrewd selling point, for sinking-fund buying will provide strong market support at a time when rising interest rates generally send the bond market into a decline...
Like many another boom project, Coral Gables was an almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed...