Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked by the Yale Daily News whither she was listing. Last week at the News's annual banquet given by a new board of editors for the retiring board, Yale's President James Rowland Angell had sly fun asking the News who started Yale's building boom, anyway. He recalled, he said, that the Yale Record (funny fortnightly) had treated itself to a handsome home three years ago. And now the grave News had received and that day had dedicated a new plant of its own. Point was added to President Angell...
Matches. Another big voice to boom against dumping last week was that of William Armstrong Fairburn, Diamond Match's president. Cried he to stockholders: "Foreign matches, generally inferior, not handled by your company [or any other U. S. match manufacturer], continue to be sold in this country at ridiculously low, uneconomic and unwarranted prices in violation of the spirit of both the U. S. anti-dumping and tariff laws. . . . Book matches, due to destructive competition, uneconomic merchandising and overproducing power, dropped to a record low level for the year. ... All match prices in the U. S. are absurdly...
...When the boom breaks, the prices will fall...
Many a small Protestant church is in financial difficulties. Some may have to merge with neighboring congregations. Churches which built apartments, shops, hotels during boom times find rentals dropping. Last week the Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions was $1,000,000 in debt. Unless the church finds a way to pay its debt, the Board will be wiped...
...chickens, New York sportsmen agreed to bear the cost; Dr. Gross agreed to choose the hen, to introduce it to the heath-cock's retreat. But there was no time to waste, he warned; the mating season was on and no one knew when the heath-cock might boom a last boom and boom no more...