Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countryfolk, including many a bearded and bonneted Mennonite, to a mass meeting in the Hershey stadium. After speakers had whipped the crowd into a fury, making good use of the C. I. O. banner which strikers had raised above the U. S. flag over the factory, somebody began to boom through a loudspeaker: "Let's go to the factory!" With a roar some 3,000 farmers and non-union workers seized clubs, whips knives, and banners labeled DOWN WITH THE C. I. O., swarmed down Chocolate Avenue past weeping Mr. Hershey, smashed in the factory doors, pounced...
...played more violently, took firmer root. Badminton's renaissance in England started soon after the War. In the U. S., where socialites had been playing dignified badminton for years, strenuous badminton did not put in an appearance until about ten years ago. About 1931, badminton began to boom. Currently it is the fastest growing game in the U. S. Last week in Chicago, the cream of the U. S. crop of 40,000 badminton addicts played the first national championship tournament...
Meantime the No. 1 U. S. papermaker, colossal International Paper & Power, has also been putting its corporate house in order, and for the same reason: a paper boom. After dragging bottom at $41 per ton, newsprint prices were increased slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
...half of the West Coast's paper business in its pocket, with ten billion feet of reserve pulpwood, with annual capacity of 485,000 tons of paper and vast amounts of boxboard, realigned Crown Zellerbach, like International Paper & Power, is ready-set to cash in on the Boom...
...avoided mining issues like the plague. A director in such companies as Canada Foundries & Forgings and Stop & Shop Stores, Broker Housser found unspectacular industrials good enough to give him a city home on Warren Road, a country place in Thornhill, just outside Toronto. But with arrival of the mining boom, which has made speculation in Toronto as common a pastime as the cinema, H. B. Housser & Co. began to diversify. Harry Housser was one of the group which backed Kerr Addison, which in the past year went from a few cents a share...