Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With cheap (gun) powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes (to the President) will be not 'Boom' but 'Swoosh...
Economists will please note that the Roosevelt "Boom" is officially over and we are now in the Roosevelt "Swoosh...
...over the 25?-per-lb. level for the first time since 1929, the I. R. R. C. met in London, upped the rubber quota for the second half of 1937 to 90% of the base (TIME. March 29, 1937). Almost immediately afterward came the collapse of the British commodity boom, and rubber consumption presently slumped about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again met in London, cut the rubber...
Nearly 20 years ago Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and a score of lesser authors made their reputations by dramatizing the deadly influence of Main Street's narrow, inhibited middle-class culture. What has been happening on Main Street in the last hardbreathing decade of boom and depression? The single serious attempt to find out has been Robert & Helen Lynd's brilliant sociological study, Middle town in Transition (TIME, April 19). On the surface, reported the Lynds, the cultural pattern of Main Street in 1935 appeared to be intact. But the pattern showed significant new bulges...
During the delirious boom years after Reconstruction, when Northern capital poured into the South, and Confederate generals became presidents of railroad and steel companies, two movements opposed to industrialism also got under way. One was the type represented by General Robert Toombs, tousle-haired, unreconstructed, uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when...