Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruiser Detroit swung into the Irish harbor of Kingstown last week, 40 bravely martial fortress guns went BOOM...
...Senate Finance Committee he helped frame the Federal Reserve and Farm Loan Acts. His horizon was widened by his experience on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He became an intimate of President Wilson. After the War, his interests definitely transcended Oklahoma affairs. He had an organized boom to inherit the Wilson mantle at the National Democratic Convention of 1920. He all but joined the La Follette movement four years later, after his "not serious" desire for the Democratic nomination had been balked a second time. "I am and always have been an Insurgent," he once said...
...Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white men. . . . From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains of the Moon...
...minutes later, the foremast was split to the deck and carried the foresail and headsail down with it. The boom fell athwart the cabin, crushing it in and while we had a narrow escape, nobody was injured. . . . The snapped masts floating in the water threatened to crash into our side as they were pounded along by the waves...
...gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support a continuous bull market, with stocks soaring week by week. Through the twelve Federal Reserve banks, together with their member banks, it could lend money to brokers at 3½ or 4%, swelling...