Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Editor Mussolini opened up full blast to boom his aggressive designs against Ethiopia and blast Great Britain for opposing them at Geneva in the person of that sleek Etonian Peaceman, Captain Anthony Eden (TIME, June...
Last summer another Briton named Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas published a stockmarket forecast: The Coming American Boom. The breezy little pamphleteer sold tens of thousands of copies in the U. S. and gave his name to the short-lived "Angas rally" on the New York Stock Exchange. But the boom did not come. So last week Major Angas brought out The Boom Begins...
Part I of the Major's latest pamphlet is a 53-page defense of his monetary theories, frankly written for the general benefit of his critics, the particular benefit of Banker James Warburg who ridiculed The Coming American Boom. Part II is a 22-page defense of the New Deal with some fatherly advice for President Roosevelt. The last ten pages reiterate the Major's conviction that inflation in the U. S. offers a mighty fine chance to get rich quick...
This story of a Dutch rubber planter during the pre-War boom and the post-War gloom will not seem to U. S. readers so colorful as Conrad's nor so mordant as Maugham's. But as a straight report of a planter's life from A to Z it is a first-rate job. As a novel it cannot be rated quite so high...
...painfully, Piet began to find his niche. A friendly planter got him a native housekeeper; her respectful affection and competent managing gave him some degree of comfort. He worked hard, never took a holiday until the doctor made him, saved every guilder. About the time rubber prices began to boom Piet's antlike qualities landed him a really good job on an isolated island. Then his boss catspawed him into marrying a European mistress who was getting troublesome. Piet, who was innocent enough to think the girl was in love with him, was overjoyed, gave his faithful brown housekeeper...