Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of building up its case against speculation, Golden Harvest at this point launches a fantastic compromise. Walt Martin organizes a farmers' strike. Chris cooperates by using his knowledge of the strike to boom wheat prices on the exchange. The farm strike collapses in time to bankrupt him. In its effort to give an appearance of having proved something, Walt Martin is shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color...
During the boom times from 1927 to 1929, the people of the U.S. spent more & more money on amusing themselves, less & less on the things of God. After 1929, like the Devil who a monk would be, the people turned to the churches in increasing numbers. Last week the Federal Council of Churches released figures showing that while the national income decreased 54% from 1929 to 1932 and expenditures for recreation decreased 65%, church giving decreased only 40%. During the period surveyed, Protestant gifts never amounted to more than 1% of the U.S. income. With the national income declining from...
...over a decade the new sport remained a nameless Ballard Vale backlot pastime. Then Editor Foster decided to tell the world about it-chiefly because he wanted to boom the arms & ammunition business, get more advertising into his magazines. In February 1926 he launched a nation-wide promotional campaign, offered $100 for a name. The money went to a Montana rancher's wife who suggested "skeet," an obsolete word, probably Scandinavian, meaning "to shoot...
...then came an opportunity for advancement. He was offered the presidency of the State Bank (Chicago's leading Scandinavian bank) previously headed by the late Ralph Van Vechten. Only a short time had Mr. Head been installed when, at the height of 1929's boom, State...
...Florida land boom of 1926 he organized the "American-British improvement Corp.," planned to build a city called "Floranada" on 3,600 Florida acres. Collapse of the boom wiped out his own fortune and millions loaned by his family. "I discovered that a diamond-encrusted golden spoon can become an instrument of torture-when it stirs the bitter tea of failure...