Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility that liquor dealers were taking undue advantage of the drinking public was Dr. James M. Doran. For 26 years Dr. Doran has been on the Government payroll, since 1930 as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. As chairman of the Distillers Code Authority he said last week: "A mere boom. It is absurd for anyone to predict the price of liquor for the next few days...
...William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois Glass, who bought 40,000 shares of National Distillers for his bottle company. That deal on top of the famed whiskey dividend (one case, pre-prohibition, for each five shares) made Wall Street acutely conscious of National Distillers. In last summer's boom its stock hit a high of $124. Last month National Distillers contributed the first major stock-split to the New Deal market-three...
...Sewalls were F. F. C.'s (First Family of Chicago) and proud of it. But old Granny Sewall, remembering pioneer days, log cabins, the Great Fire, plain living and hard work, shook her head at some of the goings-on of her descendants. The Sewall bank was booming; they all had plenty of money and little to do for it; even before the War gave them an excuse to run wild, some of the Sewalls were slipping from the pioneer virtues. But Granddaughter Sally had good stuff in her; she sympathized with her Granny. Wartime and love...
...been received which would in any way determine the cause of the present trouble. Whether it was undue economy, on the part of the University in an effort to construct the houses and other buildings as cheaply as possible or whether the Houses were a victim of the boom year construction so frequently found in work of that period when buildings were put up as fast and as cheaply as possible at the expense of durability and other qualities which would make it possible for the buildings to stand for many decades to come with a minimum of repairs...
...pick out his first pipe. And when young Prince George first went to Dunhill's, he was accompanied by his three royal brothers. That would have been a great day for Alfred Dunhill if he had had any further need of royal patronage to make his business boom. But he had no such need, for by that time the sun never set on Dunhill pipes...