Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scotland Yard was ready to admit that perhaps it was not the world's best police force when in 1932 what Britain called a crime wave brought London 23 murders, 13,800 burglaries. What shocked the new Commissioner, big-framed, bigger-voiced Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard, was the discovery that the Yard's crack men rose in rank not by ability but by seniority. He soon found out that the Vienna police force was not only the world's best but also the most educated. Every Viennese police lieutenant has a law degree. "Boom" Trenchard...
...failure of demand for industrial loans is that potential consumer demand has been stifled by unreasonably high prices, as for steel and building materials. His complaint here, and it is a very real one, should be directed against the NRA. He may be quite right that a potential boom lurks around the corner in the form of a low-cost housing...
...security and commodity exchanges following President Roosevelt's devaluation of the dollar: A series of 3,000,000-and 4,000,000- share trading days on the New York Stock Exchange that whipped the week's total transactions to the highest level since the whiskey boom last summer...
...assistance. What Mr. Brown did not say, and what is highly relevant to his difficulty, is that Mr. Insull's chief danger consisted in his ability to borrow more money than he could handle; like Mr. Krueger, he suffered from a continual embarras de richesses, and was, in boom times, hard put to it in his effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation...
...book about it, but he ended by doing both. The Native's Return, something between a travel diary and a guide book, is better than most such journalistic accounts. Though his book may well make its author persona non grata with the Jugoslavian Government, it should certainly boom the Dalmatian tourist trade...