Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1936 has been a boom year in fossil anthropology. A quarry blast in South Africa turned up an adult skull of the same genus as the immature fossil Australopithecus found in 1924. A brain case discovered in England appeared to be older than Piltdown Man. A cranial piece dug out of a California creek, though probably not much more than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging...
...Brown snow machine made the wintersports show possible, Hannes Schneider was what made it profitable. To him, as head of the famed Arlberg Skiing School, more than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize...
Motor Products Corp. was founded in 1916 during Wall Street's first big boom in motor shares-a merger of five small accessory companies. After profits in excess of $2,000,000 in 1928 and 1929, Motor Products' income dropped rapidly to a $518,000 deficit in 1932. By 1934 the company was back in the black and last year's profits were $1,079,000. President of Motor Products since 1935 has been Antone Lyman Lott, 50, whose service with the company dates to its founding. A graduate of the University of Nebraska (Class...
...business. The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history. It was Mayflower Association, Inc. with assets of some $19000,000 and one of the best records in the field. Its stock was launched on the full crest of the 1929 boom at $60 per share. Its liquidating value today is more than $77, after past distributions of some $27 in cash and stock...
...convinced," said Engineer Hoover, whose own great days were boom days, "that when we fully understand the economic history of the period of the Twenties, we shall find that the debacle which terminated at the end of another apparently highly prosperous period was largely contributed to by the failure of industry to pass its improvement-through labor-saving devices-on to the consumer...