Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boom! Boom! Boom!" More than a million people, princely and middle class, proletarian and peasant, swarmed into The Hague last week-so many that all its hotels and lodging houses could not begin to hold them. Restaurants and cafes received special permission from Her Majesty's Government to keep open clear around the clock. Ten thousand Netherlands soldiers had not so much the job of keeping order as of making sure that no gin-sipping celebrant fell into one of The Hague's canals, and none did. Piping hot Dutch chocolate, served from Army field kitchens with cake...
Reason: Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld was rumored to want played at his wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three...
...ballyhoo Cuba's political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human...
...beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany with a poor record. Certainteed has had losses every year from 1928 to 1935, when it made a small profit. It shows a loss for the first nine months...
Cost of the Sun Valley development was about that of one of Producer Goldwyn's colossal spectacles-$1,000,000. When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks...