Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except Committeemen Hamilton and Requa, officially discreet, departed with puffs for the Landon boom. To the growing picture of Governor Landon as a nickel-betting, budget-balancing Great Economizer, Republican Allen last week added his dab: "In my judgment, the time has come again for a stingy man to be President of the U. S. Governor Alf M. Landon is a stingy...
OGPU Agents began last week a grand roundup and jailing of Moscow housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among...
Opener. This week the Metropolitan opened its new season with much the same boom of headlines and splash of socialite color as had marked its 51 other first nights. Bystanders crowded the sidewalks. Standees were early, boxholders late...
...rail equipment companies were worse off in 1935 than they had been in 1934, traders admitted that the stock boom was strictly on a when, as & if issued basis. Pessimists pointed out that though obsolescence is a matter of fact when the purchaser has money, it is a matter of opinion when he has not. The railroads were expected to lose more money in 1935 than they had lost in 1934. They still had an excess supply of locomotives and freight cars, and Railway Age estimated a 1935 production of only 100 locomotives. To this traders retorted that rail equipment...
...Market felt that the U. S. was at last in a definite recovery stage, regarded the present upturn as merely the beginning of the next boom. It saw no harm in getting ahead of the parade, as long as it knew that the parade had started. The spirit of recovery remains considerably superior to its statistics, but the Market was never one to live on bread alone...