Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send her silver to Nanking, the economic structure of North China would collapse, and Japan's attempt to build up the prosperity of this part of China would fail. North China silver must be kept in North China...
...twelvemonth ago inferior Federal Court judges were knocking the NRA out of the ring right & left. Farmers were in a blatantly bitter mood. The Administration's great hope for 1935 recovery was a building boom to be fostered by the Housing Administration. In California Upton Sinclair as Democratic candidate for Governor had become such a nuisance that the President had to repudiate him. In Manhattan a million-share day on the stock exchange was front-page news and Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington...
Last week from his Hyde Park study President Roosevelt looked out on a strangely different U. S. scene. Gone was the NRA. Gone was Donald Richberg. No angry bankers and no housing boom disturbed the tranquillity of the country. Henry Ford had built a million cars in the first ten months of 1935. Not one but two million shares a day were changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger...
National Steel, only major outfit to make money throughout Depression, again ranked as No. 1 earner with a nine-month profit of $8,603,000, nearly doubling the earnings of the 1934 period. With business concentrated on steel's most profitable items, National is a boom-time merger that Depression has not withered...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube had a fine business with oil and gas companies in the boom days of pipe-line construction, but its sheet division is now more prosperous. Youngstown's 1931-34 deficits came to $31,000,000. After losing money in the first half of 1935, Youngstown made $575,000 in the third quarter, squeezed out a nine-month profit of $104,000 against a $1,669,000 loss...