Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough Revolution to kill the goose of entrenched Capital-outside the Calles circle. For better or worse Mexico has now slammed the door against "imperialist exploitation." Three big foreign banks have cleared out of Mexico this year. The upping of silver prices has eased matters by producing a local boom...
...continues his ½? per point limit in contract bridge, in which he has established a well-deserved reputation as a bidder-upper. Paradoxical as it may seem, the New Deal, of which he is the severest critic, is pouring more 59? dollars into his bank account than did the boom years...
Meanwhile the tobacco boom was making itself evident in other sections. In a survey of 39 tobacco markets in North Carolina, the United Press reported that more than 200,000,000 lb. had been sold in that State up to Oct. 1 at an average price of $27.02 per cwt. Tobacco income was up 35% over last year, was five times greater than in 1931 when the average price was $8.86 per cwt. Tobacco farmers were pouring into North Carolina towns to spend their money on automobiles, zipper jackets, silk dresses. At a Winston-Salem warehouse, where the average price...
Such an act is clearly Fascist. Its loudest champions have been Britain's No. 1 Blackshirt Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, Tory Die-Hard Winston Churchill and the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, leather-lunged Lord "Boom" Trenchard. Against the Act gentle Quakers have industriously murmured. Socialist penfolk like H. G. Wells accuse His Majesty's Government of either having the jitters or consciously preparing...
...fewest victories, most defeats. Impressive headlines have heralded impressive programs which have quickly petered out in obscure failure. Congress has passed laws and the Treasury has passed out millions but the heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government's housing program was about to make a 180° turn...