Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically the fall of the yen since it went off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) has now produced a nationwide "inflation boom." Silk raisers who received about 1,500 yen per bale of raw silk in 1929 and were forced last July to sell at the "panic price" of 450 yen, now get 900 yen and exult that "silk prices have doubled in the last half year...
Undoubtedly Japan's "inflation boom" distracted her leaders last week from hard and ominous facts which they must sooner or later face. Government expenditures are running 70% ahead of current revenue, a catastrophic spread. Like all booms the current, superficial Japanese prosperity is basically unsound. With Manchuria still full of Chinese bandit-soldiers who are still full of fight, the Empire stands committed to further stupendous military expenditures, consequent further inflation of the yen and the most strenuous testing in 1933 of Japan's whole fabric, economic, fiscal, political...
...bean, of Cabots & Lowells, Boston is also the home of the "open-end" management trust, a trust which continually sells its shares to the public but which also stands ready at all times to repurchase them at slightly below liquidating value. During the last three years boom-time trusts have often sold as much as 50% of their liquidating value. As a member of Massachusetts Investors' advisory board, Mr. Adams will be able to boast that not only was his the first "open-end" trust but also that in the last few years it has grown more rapidly than...
...came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually glad to become acclimatized. In the boom years of expansion Stephen prospered exceedingly. Then came the Civil War, break-up of friendships and family. Stephen and Abby-Delight weathered the storm fairly well, lived to see one daughter elope, one son killed before he broke their hearts. When Stephen died Abby-Delight was left alone...
...wife ran to him, clutched his waist, pleaded with him to listen. Brawny Ivan Gates ignored her, walked to the window, climbed upon the sill and-nearly dragging his small wife with him-jumped. Thus, dismally, died "Van" Gates, 42, Ringling of the flying circus era. Frustrated by the boom of commercial aviation. Van Gates had lost his money, his health. Few weeks ago he was operating "museums" on Broadway and at Coney Island where indigent artists exhibited paintings of nudes for 15? admission...