Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak of the 1929 boom Mrs. Greenway was smart enough to sell out many a copper stock she had inherited from her husband, became one of Arizona's wealthiest widows. She kept, however, her Quarter Circle Double X ranch near Williams. Her home is in Tucson, 50 yards down the street from her famed Arizona Inn. That hostelry came into being as a result of her generous interest in disabled veterans. She supplied the government hospital with tools and machinery for making furniture. When a market for the furniture disappeared, she opened the Arizona Inn and furnished it with...
...favorable outside factors, including a limitation on immigration, the absence of millions of regular workers with the A. E. F., a Democratic administration at Washington that pampered Labor as a means of keeping up Wartime production. After 1920 the A. F. of L. began to coast downhill. In boom times workers felt they did not need to belong to a local to get a job. With Depression they discovered that even their union could not provide them with work at a good wage. By 1932 U. S. trade union strength was back at its pre-War level and the prestige...
...blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built...
...make way for Mr. Cord and Lou Manning became chairman of the executive committee. Venerable President Clinton Lloyd Bardo stayed on to build the ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Co. Ltd. In 1925 it changed its name to American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Diversification proved to be illadvised. In 1931 it sold...
...calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew was 40. The next decade, the decade of the Spanish War, was greater for Andrew. In the war boom he turned promoter on a grand scale. He merged coal properties around Pittsburgh (many of them Mellon owned) into two great companies and sold their stock to the public. He merged the Pittsburgh traction companies (many of them Mellon owned). T. Mellon & Sons private bank became Mellon National. Andrew...