Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great was the excitement at Las Vegas (pop. 5,177) as work was about to start. The town suffered a premature land boom two years ago when the Boulder Dam Bill was signed. Houses were erected but no tenants arrived. Today ample quarters exist there for workmen and their families...
...Sarnoff said that this inventory had been practically all disposed of, but did not say at what prices or with what effect on earnings. Although Radio Corp.'s position as licenser of companies making nearly 90% of U. S. radios enables it to show large profits in boom, radio times, the same situation results in a very marked reaction in Radio Corp. profits when the industry as a whole falls upon lean times. Meanwhile, in fairness to Radio Corp., it should be added that the G. E.-Westinghouse deal has unquestionably so altered the Radio Corp. set-up that...
...pages increased. Then, in 1928, just as success seemed certain, Liberty blundered, tripped. Not in circulation, for that continued to mount, to a staggering 2,250,000 today. Liberty's popularity with the man-and-woman-on-the-street can scarcely be denied. But, even though 1929 was a boom year, its advertising fell off. Meanwhile, old Collier's came up from behind, went far ahead. The Pattersons?pére et fille?could easily afford to throw Liberty away and still live lavishly on Tribune-News money. And they might do if Liberty were not, with him, a point...
...earnest, didactic, creative attitude of The New Republic. Dismayed by the scene around him, Editor Croly's faiths subtly changed; his belief in progressive movements weakened, he began to feel that in individual development lay the real future of Liberalism. With the collapse of the LaFollette boom in 1925 the magazine suffered another relapse, since when it has slowly recovered a circulation of 25,000 based largely on its literary and critical ingredients...
...BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!?21 times sounded the guns at Buckingham Palace, the guns in Hyde Park, the guns at the Tower of London, firing all together at high noon...