Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land boom, two hurricanes, a plague of Mediterranean fruit flies and a Depression laid Florida low. A Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
...bank clearings, construction, postal receipts, newspaper advertising, railroad traffic had rebounded so high that the State, by Governor Sholtz's proclamation, celebrated a holiday in honor of Recovery. This year Floridians have still greater cause for rejoicing. By final reckonings their biggest business, tourists, was best since the boom days of 1925-26. During the winter, 1,750,000 visitors, a quarter million more than last year, had spent $625,000,000. On horse and greyhound racetracks 2,000,000 persons had bet $36,500,000, up $7,500,000 from last year...
...July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...
...biggest business, cutting heavily into retail trade. Professional operators hired hundreds of stenographers, rented big offices, sold letters to crowds of customers, who in turn sold them to other suckers. On a $5 series, notaries public certified payments to make them "cheat-proof." After one roaring day the boom faded...
...method of choosing the members of the Federal Reserve Board, and the assurance of their political independence, such as is suggested by Walter Lippmann, would make the present bill extremely good. Certainly we do not want to repeat the experiences in the Reserve System during the recent boom and present depression...