Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan office last week Mr. Rabkin rubbed his hands with ill-concealed delight. Business was on the boom. This year the makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
Northrop Corp., subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 19), was not the only company to benefit from the recent boom in military aircraft orders. Fortnight ago the Army Air Corps awarded Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo a contract for 50 pursuit planes to cost $1,999,700, as part of its plan to buy at least 600 new planes in the next three years. Last week Consolidated Aircraft Corp. received another order $243,000 from the Chinese Government for 50 Fleet training planes...
...Christmas shopping in Washington started ten days earlier and was 30%, ahead of last year. Two big Atlanta department stores reported their business up 25%. In Memphis and Dallas there were merchants who were rubbing their hands over 50%, increases. Toy buying in Chicago was the best since boom days. And sober estimates last week placed the probable dollar volume of holiday buying 16%, above a year ago and the actual volume of goods abreast...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...
...Briton named Major A. R. Bannister, it arrived in the U. S. by way of Canada where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co. of Chicago. A similar machine is manufactured by National Die Casting Co. to sell at Macy's for $3.94. In boom times Club Aluminum, a kitchen utensil company organized ten years ago by a hillbilly preacher named Burnett, sold $35,000,000 worth of heavy-cast aluminum utensils to nearly 2,000,000 people. Its salesmen went from house to house inviting housewives to give luncheons prepared in Club Aluminum pots...