Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages of the drifting dust that followed when...
Under the high-powered imprint of Simon & Schuster three yellow-covered pamphlets have appeared in U. S. bookshops in the past two years amid loud fanfare. First was Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas' The Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline. That sold...
...might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...
Last week California voters solved Alf Landon's problem for him. Publisher Hearst could still puff the Landon boom, but the one instrument by which he could have exerted real pressure on the Kansas candidate had irretrievably slipped his grasp. Commented Governor Landon: "I am entirely satisfied with the California results...
...soft jobs in their banks or corporations, notably the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, favorite sinecure for loyal politicians. Another thing that tends to weaken the resistance of governors is the fact that many of them have to borrow money to buy their 100 qualifying shares. In boom days 100 shares of Bank of France stock was worth, at present parity, more than $150,000 and last week, after a 50% decline in the past year, more than $30,000. The regents or their banks are only too willing to lend a governor the sum he needs...