Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deep" (1898) went big on the road. In New York the new songs were "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach" (1896), "Take Back Your Gold" (1897), "She's More to be Pitied than Censured" (1898). Then ragtime started its rage. "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E" (1891) was one of the first strikes. Theodore Metz got the mood for "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's prot...
...just been published and mailed to all Harvard College Alumni, contains the names of 6,626 men who contributed to the Fund in 1933--the largest number of contributors there have ever been. This record is exceptional considering the present financial conditions and the fact that in the boom year of 1929 there were only 5,976 donors. Although the amount contributed last year was only $66,042, the Fund in eight years has raised nearly $1,100,000 from 14,215 individuals. The money given through the Fund is particularly valuable to the University, because while most donations...
Just after the war, the business boom caused an artificial congestion of the American railroads. It was in this period that the agitation for the power and water development of the St. Lawrence River waterway found its inception. Now that it is a definite issue before the Senate, it behooves us to take note of its potentialities...
...murderers dead by hanging or their own hand. For the 21st, the murder of a language teacher from Cyprus, the Yard nabbed a man but lost a conviction on the evidence of ballistics experts. Only one big jewel robbery marred the year. But what made "Boom" Trenchard smile under his military mustache is the strange calm that has fallen over London since Jan. 1 : not one murder, not one big robbery...
...actually thought of giving up. Dividends on common stock had ceased in 1924. Wool prices had fallen from $1.55 in 1925 to 65? in 1930. A thin-lipped Yankee named Andrew Pierce had done all he could to reorganize the company after a fatal post-War spending and production boom had piled up huge unsalable inventories. The year he resigned the deficit was the third biggest in the company's history. Neither Mr. Warner, who became chairman of the executive committee, nor Mr. Noah, who became president, had ever run a woolen mill. But Mr. Warner, as president...