Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally realtors in "Nanking" or "Southern Capital" sported last week on the crest of a boom which had shot all desirable buildings up to approximately 15 times their former value, with land appraisals up tenfold...
...Palace; and thereafter and furthermore to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross, carry tidings to the Lord Mayor of London, and repeat the proclamation yet again in the Close, adjoining Chancery Lane, and finally at the Royal exchange, whereupon simultaneous salutes would boom from St. James's Park and the Tower of London...
John Moody, President of Moody's Investment Service, last week predicted that the next few years would see "the greatest boom in the history of this country." He foresaw the greatest advance in commodity prices since 1921, a large increase in per capita consumption of leading products, and a redistribution of prosperity which would include the small merchant and manufacturer as well as the large corporation...
...forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
...though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts, hire the men, buy the materials, do the public work, convert the slump into a boom...