Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan all this mushroomed into such a boom as even the U. S. cannot remember. With thousands of overnight millionaires, a self-congratulatory middle-class with money and power was suddenly thrown among the feudal remnants of pre-War Japan. Its members invested in stucco villas and saxophones, art works and sex novels, phonographs, geisha girls and the best Scotch whiskey and earned the contemptuous nickname of nankin (chess pawns promoted by crossing the board). The fantasy lasted until 1923 when a 52 billion yen earthquake jolted Japan and proved a forerunner of Depression. Even today most moneyed Japanese...
...height of the Florida boom in the middle 1920?3 Miami frontage was worth more than any other land on the face of the globe. Justification of the prices at which this land was changing hands daily would have required fully-rented buildings 200 stories high. Nearby in the midst of this financial bedlam blossomed an incredible development?Coral Gables, a city of planned perfection that was to be no less than a "paradise on earth." Last week in Washington in its investigation of protective committees, the Securities & Exchange Commission wrote a few new chapters of paradisiacal history...
Some sort of law against the boom practices of the Stock Exchange is eminently desirable. So far, under the able direction of Mr. Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn...
...coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which he has been delivering elsewhere lately on the dark lining behind the silver cloud of British economic recovery. "I do not think," said he, "that our present building boom can last much longer...
...Meeting for a three-day session at Atlantic City, the Financial Advertisers Association fairly oozed Faith, Confidence & Recovery. President Leslie G. McDouall of the New Jersey Bankers Association keynoted: "I am satisfied that the opportunities are just as great today as they were in the so-called boom period." From President Frank F. Brooks of Pittsburgh's First National Bank popped a curious suggestion for the "most gigantic advertising campaign America ever saw, regardless of expense, to promote economic literacy. . . . a campaign that will draw the sharp line between right and wrong economics...