Word: boomingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time attempted a great economic experiment. . . . We have undertaken to stabilize economic forces. . . . Our joint undertaking has succeeded to a remarkable degree. . . . We have succeeded in maintaining confidence and courage. . . . The acceleration of construction programs have been successful beyond our hopes. . . . The whole range of our experiences from this boom and slump should be placed under accurate examination with a view to broad determination of what can be done to achieve greater stability for the future. If such an exhaustive examination meets with general approval, I shall, when the situation clears a little, move to organize a body - representative...
...times one feels that the author has forgotten his theme, as when he lets his characters wander to Florida in the midst of the land boom. The devotion of page after page to the character development of persons not immediately concerened in the story tends to destroy the proportion of the novel and proves to be its major fault...
...Hoyt (Yanks) and Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during the Florida boom. Bowlegged Charlie Grimm (Cubs) paints por- traits, plays a $450 banjo, also the zither the xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money...
President Hoover ordered guns at all U. S. Army posts throughout the world to boom out every half-hour for a full day, to fire a 48-pound salute at sundown. Members of the Supreme Court prepared to follow the casket as the honorary pallbearers. Congress adjourned. Washington was enveloped in mourning. ¶. It took President Hoover's Haiti Commission less than a week of investigating at Port-au-Prince to forward its first and most important recommendation to the White House. The recommendation: Selection of a temporary neutral President to succeed Louis Borno, to be followed...
Employers, dreading idle needles in the boom season, tried to avert the strike, failed for lack of organization. Workers complained chiefly of "sweatshops" where girls worked as much as 60 hours per week for as little...