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Word: boomingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slippery road in West Virginia. In 1928 he bravely campaigned for the Brown Derby though it hurt his political standing. In 1930 he visited Russia, returning with the warning that the U. S. had much to unlearn about the Soviet. Early this year he silenced a "favorite son" boom in his own behalf by declaring for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His reward was being made temporary chairman and keynoter of the Chicago convention. Despite his own blotchy record, he flayed the "Hoover-Grundy" tariff act. Most of his speech dealt with the Depression on which his party relies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...There is no single remedy," Governor Roosevelt began, "that will by itself bring immediate prosperity to the agricultural population of the United States. . . . Our economic life today is a seamless web. . . . This nation cannot endure if it is half 'boom' and half 'broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pioneer Goes West (Cont'd) | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...honest Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung marched into the hill country near Chefoo, stronghold of General Liu Chen-nien and 30,000 soldiers whom Governor Han considers to be his soldiers. Thus last week the businesses of armament and war were having, at the very least, a baby boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Again Wars? | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...silk industry, to its intense delight, last week found itself suddenly in the midst of a boom. Unlike cotton and woolen men, silk men are much at the mercy of THEM and last week it was gloriously plain that THEY-the fashion designers of Paris, the style buyers and editors from the U. S., and the 40,000,000 U. S. women who wear dresses-had decided on a style change which would require the U. S. silk industry's most diligent services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silk | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silk | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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