Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances, might not Poland elect as President next June her world-great Ignace Jan Paderewski? Last week several Warsaw, Krakow and other Polish newsorgans started a "Paderewski for President!" boom, stressed that no other candidate has yet taken the field...
...chain of Montana banks at 37, lined up with Amalgamated Copper Co.'s famed Henry H. Rogers in a copper war with Fritz Augustus Heinze. His spoils included Amalgamated's presidency in 1908. In 1910 he merged it into Anaconda, was set for the Wartime copper boom, built Anaconda by cheerful pugnacity and serious business into a $700,000,000 company. Of his Montana Power Co. he admitted: "It is a monopoly because the service ... is so good and the charges so low there is no possibility of competition...
...France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many a banker, she began speculating (successfully) for her clients. John P. Morgan's sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue...
...Everybody knows," he continued, "that there was a practical boom in aviation just after the war, when certain young men made fortunes in the flying end of the game. That period is passed. But the aviation industry, like the older systems of transportation, needs designers, engineers, advertising men, business executives, and the host of employees necessary to the successful moving of mail, express, and passengers...
...panic is over, says Seldes, for "the boom was our panic. . . . America in 1928, and the first months of 1929. was a mob. . . . The responsible leaders, the statesmen and the financiers and the industrialists, were paralyzed, precisely as the British Government was paralyzed in July and August of 1914. The situations are almost parallels. In each case, a disaster threatened; in each case, authority refused to check the force of events lest the very movement of checking should bring on catastrophe. The memoirs of Grey of Fallodon match the apologies made for Coolidge and Hoover." Calling the 1929 crash...