Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin College read his obituary before the American Game Conference. But suddenly he appeared again, sadder, more lonely...
...largest section weighs three and one half tons; the smaller cap which will be raised near the end of the week, when the boom is fastened to the new section, weighs one and one half tons...
...third brother, now dead, went along. In 1895 they started a newspaper in the back room of a barber shop at Corsicana, Tex. Two years later the Murrays separated and George did not get in touch with Bill until Bill got into politics. When the Murray-For-President boom began, Brother George put Brother Bill's name in the North Dakota Democratic primaries to be held March 15. Last week they stumped the State together...
Civilian & commercial airplanes flew approximately 145,000,000 mi. last year, a decrease of about 20,000,000 mi. from 1930. The decrease was accounted for by a decline in private flying and such miscellaneous air activities as sightseeing, instruction, and photography. Scheduled air transport continued to boom, but not so much as in recent years. For the first time since 1925 it failed to double its previous year's record for passenger-mileage. Nevertheless it was up some 20% in a year when railroad and steamship travel slumped heavily. Transport planes carried 457,800 passengers, flew...
...Hurley,- Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde as officials who would not ''play ball'' with the House on economy and reorganization. The Speaker's management of the House continued to inflate the Garner-for-President boom. Texas Democrats endorsed him to a man. His name was put into the Georgia primary by proxy. Likewise in Nebraska and California his friends sought instructed convention delegates. Well aware that presidential politics could ruin his House rule and spoil his party's legislative record, Speaker Garner turned sternly...