Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Florida real estate boom collapsed, Florida went on short rations for seven years. Last week Florida made a gesture to help out other states also on short rations. That the jobless of northern states might have vitamins for breakfast, the Florida Citrus Control Committee agreed to donate 11,000 bushels of oranges per day to unemployment, provided Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would pay packing and shipping costs. Well might Florida make this gesture, for last week she felt that her seven lean years were over...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
...COMPANIES LENT 20 BILLIONS IN 1929 IN CALL LOAN BOOM...
...Sept. 25, 1931 a great crowd of farmers collected at Columbia, Ky. to celebrate the Traylor-for-President boom. The wives brought baskets of food, and an old-fashioned dinner was spread at noon under the trees, near the fields where Mel Traylor had spent afternoons plucking tobacco worms. A Bowling Green banker orated: "He reminds us of another man, born just a short distance from here at Hodgenville, whose strange, sad wisdom influenced his nation . . . the world...
When the natural gas boom of 1930-31 subsided, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. had become allied with the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel utilities, had (through an affiliate) connected its 29,000-mi. Midwest system with the Texas Panhandle. That year (1931) it earned $22,331,000. The next year it formed a joint company with the Rockefellers to develop gas fields in north central Pennsylvania and western New York. But Columbia Gas had bank loans of $43,500,000, mostly the result of its expansion. The demand for natural gas had already fallen off when Columbia's President Philip Green...