Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenged, leaving two blank pages for the reader's notes. Probably he will be challenged most frequently not on his conclusions but on his use of the word "inflation." What he has largely in mind is what heretofore has always been politely, if inaccurately, referred to as a "boom." Such a "boom" may be of unprecedented proportions, but the Government has unprecedented powers to control it. Whether it will is another question. "A moderate and reasonable expectation is that there will be control and no runaway inflation of the flight-from-the-dollar variety within the next...
...publishers who know what to do about it are Richard Leo Simon and Max Lincoln Schuster, who issued Inflation Ahead! at $1. Last summer they snapped up a pamphlet prepared by Briton's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, published it as The Coming American Boom (TIME...
...occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates ever won more than a couple of dollars. The Denver police never bothered Soapy, but competitors sometimes did, and when the Colorado silver boom started he moved to the mushroom town of Creede, prospecting for prospectors...
...after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from the deal, "Jimmy" Cromwell sailed into the Florida land boom, planned to build a city called "Floranada," lost his money in the collapse, lost his illusions in a deluge of lawsuits. Depression infected him with Reform. He dipped into economics, politics, finance, began to preach public ownership of utilities. In a booklet called The Voice of Young America he attacked...
...summers ago the five whites were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have...