Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Stephenson calls upon his vast knowledge of provincial country folk and factory workers, gathered while living in small towns in Ohio and Indiana where he became acquainted with glass-blowers and learned of the gaudy boom days in that region, days which belonged to the generation just previous. His particular quality is an ability to secure and hold a dramatic movement through the medium of his delightfully informal style and this together with the fineness of the use of dialogue, makes of his characters living people. He extracts the essentials of episodes and scenes, and delicacy, charm, brutality...
...together. Threatened with a general strike, they gave scant heed to the "revolutionary program" of last September. The big thing now was U. S. recognition. They were still bickering over Batista's candidate when they were jolted out of their chairs by the sound of Cabana Fortress guns. Boom-Boom-Boom -21 times...
...John Investor began to harvest his fourth and final crop of earnings statements for 1933. That it would be a better harvest than a year ago there was no doubt. But since an Old Deal first quarter and a poorish New Deal last quarter offset the spring and summer boom, the harvest was not as bountiful as John Investor had hoped. Some full year reports...
...Oklahoma had given up his leadership of the Inflation cause, Senator Thomas was quick to say that on the contrary his cause was all but won, that he was pressing his victory to completion. And he added, sensationally, that he was already devising means for controlling the post-Depression boom which he believed to be inevitable as the result of his efforts...
Neck Out. Walter Chrysler swam atop the great boom of the twenties. He bought Dodge at a grand price. He plunged into the fiercely fought small car field, setting up Plymouth as a competitor of Chevrolet and Ford. He acquired an estate at Great Neck, L. I. He built his skyscraper in Manhattan. He became a collector of fine oriental rugs and tapestries. He had his life insured for $1,000,000. The whole glittering world of the boom beckoned to him and he responded. It would have been hard to find a man who, in the language...