Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bliven denounced the NRA as "the most painful and conspicuous failure of the administration," enabling manufacturers to boom prices out of properties to wages, thus weakening the nation's buying power and necessitating a drop in prices...
...thought of the dream party was Professional Hostess Elsa Maxwell whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After...
...centres in larger numbers than last year, with their budgets for spring inventories up from 5% to 15%. But most notable fact of the week was that the New York Times business index shot up past the 1934 high, established in April, into new high ground since the false boom of May-August...
...zealously. "The Depression," said he, "was caused by only one thing - failure of the country's purchasing power. The solution is simple. Give all the aged a pension and the task of spending it every month, before they could receive more. Purchasing power will be restored. Business will boom. Prices will go up, of course. But what's the difference? Everyone will have plenty of money. There will be no more poverty. Everyone will be working...
Disgusted with London, even amid its present brilliant boom, were two U. S. showgirls who returned from swank Dorchester House last week on the French liner Lafayette. "You fall over dukes and princes at Dorchester House," admitted Blonde Bonnie Clare. "The real trouble is," explained Brunette Delia Carroll, "that the ones who are in earnest have no money at all and the rich ones are triflers. A really fine man asked me to wait while he went out to India for three years...