Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wednesday Evening. Everyone knew that if this singularly colorless convention was to have the slightest splash of pigmentation, now was the time for it. Charles Gates Dawes had refused to permit his friends to boom him for the Vice-Presidency. Opposition to the renomination of Charles Curtis was completely demoralized. Chairman Snell had told the "newspaper boys" that in all probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas...
...President Getulio Vargas authorized the purchase of two cruisers, eight gunboats, seven submarines, six submarine tenders. The present Brazilian navy consists chiefly of two dread-naughts, three cruisers, one coast defense vessel, ten destroyers, four submarines, one salvage ship. "The armament firms in every country are enjoying a little boom." observed London's New Statesman & Nation. "The Board of Trade has published some interesting figures about our arms exports to China and Japan. . . . The amount sent by us to Japan in March 1932, was ?40,828 and in April ?40,158. China has not been so good a customer...
Ever since the boom days of 1929, a League of Nations commission has been studying world monetary problems. Last week it made majority and minority reports...
...burst of brutal intolerance and monstrous bigotry. There is an excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space...
...generally sympathetic, of its objective, Witness Raskob observed: "I have always been long of stocks. . . . Nevertheless, I think that short-selling is a perfectly legitimate thing, though it may have been terribly abused. And I believe that if the American people had been more familiar with it ... during the boom our conditions would not have become so bad. Short-selling has its place and a very good place...