Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among them were concerned if the market price for livestock for the moment justified the overgrazing of pastures, or a temporary boom in the price of cotton or corn tempted them to forget that rotation of crops was a farming maxim as far back as the days of ancient Babylon...
Wall Street's reaction to events in Cleveland last week could hardly be called a Landon boom. The Dow-Jones industrial stock averages rose 3½ points to 154, utility averages about a point to 32, rail averages less than a point to 46½. Credit for even these gains had to be divided with a big batch of favorable business items, particularly in retail trade, which had been rolling at the best levels since 1930 and was ready-set for distribution of the Bonus, a $1,900,000,000 shot in the retail...
...nomination of Alfred Mossman Landon did not bring forth a boom, anti-Roosevelt Wall Street at least did honors with a respectable pop. The stockmarket managed to put on two successive million-share days before slumping back into the dullness of the past six weeks. Businessmen and brokers were pleased with, if not excited by, the G.O.P. platform. Mr. Landon's talk of gold had no market magic...
...poverty-stricken farmers in all 48 States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
Coalition. Publisher Paul Block had been pushing it for months. It had bobbed up repeatedly in political chitchat. But the proposal for a 1936 coalition ticket did not really boom until the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune plumped for it in a front-page editorial last week. Democrats actually suggested for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination were Virginia's Senator Byrd, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Newton D. Baker, Lewis W. Douglas. "The liquidation of the New Deal," cried the Herald Tribune, "calls for a permanent alliance of all who would keep America American...