Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trading on the New York Cotton Exchange, the other big futures market, was the heaviest in two years. Even on the spot exchanges in many towns & cities of the South the cotton boom brought wild trading. Atlanta reported more buying orders handled in the last two weeks than in the previous six months. From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from...
Cotton men expect another drop in the Government crop estimate for September, look for no sharp set-back in price in the meantime. They recall the famed boom of 1927 when prices zoomed from 12½¢ a pound to 24¢, most of the rise occurring in August and September. In 1921 an unexpectedly short crop of less than 9,000,000 bales combined with a sudden demand from textile mills (which were leading the way out of the post-War slump) shot cotton up 10¢ a pound in six weeks...
...dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies on recovery were cited. The G. O. P. assertion that the business collapse was world-wide was derided. Summing up, Nominee Roosevelt declared the Hoover Administration "encouraged speculation and overproduction . . . attempted to minimize the crash . . . forgot reform...
...BOOM AWAKENS...
...City's opera house was opened in 1878 when the town was a roaring mining centre. It soon became known as the finest theatre west of the Mississippi. Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Fanny Ward, Rose Coghlan played there. So did Actress Gish, as a child. When Central City's boom days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin Marrow...