Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel shares on the New York Stock Exchange where no less than 14 steel issues broke into new high ground. One was U. S. Steel preferred which soared to 100¾, to sink only three-fourths of a point after earnings were announced. Reason was the counter-seasonal boom in steel. While everyone supposed that, as usual, steel operations would wilt in July, late July production turned out to be nearly a record for midsummer. And last week the boom rumbled into August...
Composer Metz also claims he wrote that other ragtime classic. Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Ay, a matter of dispute since the tune may have sprung from oldtime honky-tonks as did Frankie & Johnny, or may have been written by one of Metz's colleagues, the late Henry J. Savers. For writing A Hot Time, which Publisher Marks estimates has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, Composer Metz still receives royalties from its frequent cinema and radio performances...
...early days of Depression a gold boom hit the mining States. It was followed by a silver boom which hit its proper pace this spring after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau squeezed silver prices to a high of 81? per oz. (Depression low: 25?). Secretary Morgenthau has currently let the price slip to 68? but by law he must continue buying until either his silver stocks amount to 25% of his gold stocks or the price goes to $1.29 per oz., the more likely alternative...
...have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school...
...Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life in Las Vegas, where there were 29 killings in one month, 18 in another ten weeks...