Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded in boom days, the Temple School prospered only briefly. When Alcott published the Record of Conversations on the Gospels Held in Mr. Alcott's School, its theological and pedagogical heresies shocked Boston; the pupils dropped from 40 to 25, to ten, to three. Alcott shut up shop. He tried to open another school, had to close that in short order when he admitted a Negro child among the Brahmins. By this time he was $6,000 in debt...
Refreshed by three years as well-paid president of the Maryland Casualty Co., politically sagacious Silliman Evans, 43, who left the vice-presidency of American Airways in 1932 to run Vice President Garner's Presidential boom and then rode the Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean...
...subsidiaries from monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the U. S. aluminum industry; Mr. Cummings also asked that Aluminum Co. of America forthwith "be dissolved and its properties be rearranged under several separate and independent corporations." Despite the fact that dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust touched off an historic boom in the shares of its component companies, Alcoa stock promptly crashed from...
...terrifying picture of his board of directors, the men who must in the end accept or reject the settlement. To his board Mr. Taylor was painting an equally terrifying picture of Mr. Lewis and what he could do to the steel industry now that it was heading into a boom. Moreover, there was at least a reasonable doubt as to whether the steel industry could win a strike if it came...
...that the Coronation marks an economic and political triumph for Great Britain and the Dominions. Jarred by the cataclysm of Edward Windsor, British manufacturers and tailors for some time saw the blackness of ruin, but now that Lloyd's rates have sunk, look to the Coronation as the biggest boom to business since the Jubilee. Returns will probably be higher than from the other celebration and high enough to rocket England into a decade of prosperity...