Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as in the past few years there have been no great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers...
...exorbitant fees may be charged to operating utility companies by holding companies for management, supervisory, purchasing, construction, engineering or financing services. Thus prevented was the boom-time operation known as "milking...
Traders who have been short of Big Four stocks ever since the 10-centers started to boom hurried to cover last week as soon as the news was out. All tobacco shares shot up. Wall Street had suddenly remembered that each of the Big Four but Lorillard, whose Old Golds were still in the promotional stage, was able to make good profits in 1928 and most of 1929 with prices at the present level-$6 a thousand...
...height of the boom, the U. S. had become a 23,000,000-car nation. During 1930 and 1931, there was a slow falling-off in the number of cars in use. But during these years, while consumption of everything else was falling fast, the evidence of gasoline and tire sales showed that there was almost no decline in the consumption of automobile mileage. Thus there was reason to hope that there was no great surplus of cars on the road. Furthermore, there is a close relation between road-building and car-use; and new roads, bridges, tunnels continued...
...Dealer Jonas is by no means the only person to discover that money can be made from the U. S. habit of paying fantastic prices in boom times, panic selling in lean years. Dealers in English furniture and antique silver have been shipping their best pieces back to London for over a year. A spokesman for Yamanaka & Co. said last week that three years ago there was scarcely an important Japanese print left in Japan. Wall Street collapsed, and Tokyo dealers began quietly to buy. Today, even with the collapse of the yen, rare Utamaros and Yeishis bring far more...