Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheerily damning the Stock Exchange, the "opposition" and sundry other enemies, Promoter Andrews was last week negotiating with the Federal Reserve for a $2,000,000 direct-loan-to-industry. Sharing in the first-quarter motor boom (see p. 66), Hupp now has 3,500 unfilled orders on its books but production has been hampered by lack of cash & credit. And it was further hampered last week when the American Federation of Labor called a strike in the Hupp plant...
When the U. S. entered the War Matt enlisted. He came home two years later cured of glory and minus a thumb-joint, to find his wife and his job better than ever. In the post-War building boom he was paid the union rates of $18.75 a day, got the idea that labor was king and a bricklayer the aristocrat of labor. He bought a house, a car, a radio (all on in-stallments), joined the Elks; his wife began to play bridge and put on other airs. Because he felt so prosperous Matt thought he would knock...
...Juan Hill," a settlement of some 40,000 on the middle West Side of Manhattan, was the Negro quarter before the War. The War and post-War industrial boom of 1917-18 brought thousands of unskilled workers North. In New York they spilled out of San Juan Hill into the Italian-Spanish colony of Harlem. By 1920 New York's Negro population had jumped to 250,000. The recession of the boom stranded the blackamoors, changed New York's "Nigger Heaven" into a "Nigger Hell...
Happy squeals to the effect that the cinema industry might leave California have been heard from Florida since before the real estate boom of 1923-26. Disgruntled threats to go to Florida have been heard from the cinema industry every time California proposes a new tax on cinema production. Last week the California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting...
...When the boom was rising, a mysterious message would appear in the United States Treasury, telling the whole story. By that time it would be too late to renounce recovery, no matter how hard the administration tried. Selfish and stupid people the country over would have been fooled out of their depression...