Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field where accessories often outsell salesmen, this phenomenal boom did not escape the alert eye of General Motors Corp. Last week GM bought Crosley Radio's automobile radio division at Kokomo, Ind., announced that, at additional cost, it would install radios as initial equipment in new cars. Hitherto General Motors cars, like many another make, have been built to take receiving sets should the customer buy one as an extra. No newcomer to radio, General Motors some years ago made home sets in a short-lived venture which was liquidated...
...paraded it along the roads. She convinced a railway worker named Milton Trites that it was his. After that he bought the Bannisters groceries, the doll a crib. Mrs. Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close look at his child, whom he thought of by now as Thyra Milton Trites...
...last week made the front page of the august New York Times. For more than that no pressagent ever asked. First, President Reynolds buttered up his guests. "Your presence here tonight, ladies & gentlemen, is the best evidence I have yet seen as to the certainty of an impending building boom." declared the onetime tobacco man. "You must know that we men of business never have and never can create a boom. . . . It remains for the writers of the world to create the enthusiasm necessary to move men in mass. . . . The trouble with America is that the Stephen Fosters...
Then, instead of quoting Rhymester Edgar Guest, President Reynolds launched his poetical boom with three stanzas of verse composed in collaboration with two newsworthy U. S. poets, Joseph Auslander (No Traveller Returns) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, Audrey Wurdemann (The Seven Sins). First stanza, "fabricated" by Mr. Reynolds, who usually devises his rhymes while shaving...
...With total assets of $184,900,000 and 20,000 employes, J. & L. is geared, like all steel companies, for boomtime production. And with its new strip-sheet mill and the steel team of Lewis & Hackett to sell its output, Jones & Laughlin is ready for whatever boom may develop...