Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly two decades have such curious little advertisements been printed in the Public Notices columns of the New York Times, Herald Tribune and Brooklyn Eagle. Year in, year out, through War, Boom and Depression they have appeared at least once a week, sometimes every day. Last week many a New Yorker found out for the first time what they were about...
...other half of the story is what Columbia did not do during the boom. It did not keep expensive stars under long-term contracts. It did not load itself with theatre chains. It did not get itself heavily in debt. Such unusual wisdom in Hollywood was due chiefly to the frugal instincts of the Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood...
...Congress elected as its president goateed Dr. Chaim Weizmann, British industrial chemist who was ousted by extreme Right Wingers four years ago (TIME, July 27, 1931). Pleased with this year's record-breaking influx of 60,000 Jews into Palestine, and with the homeland's current business boom, the Zionists clamored for more immigrants, pondered how to head off Great Britain's plan to convene a Palestine Legislature in which Jews would be a minority...
Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...
...items in the business of Commercial Investment Trust and Commercial Credit. The companies finance industrial equipment sales including machines and heavy goods, sales between textile manufacturers and merchandisers, hundreds of other miscellaneous transactions. However, automobile financing is the biggest part of their business and it is the current automobile boom which enabled Commercial Investment Trust to announce record half-year volume and profits last fortnight and Commercial Credit to report a similar achievement last week...