Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this good news, nor the prophecies of Major L. L. B. ("Coming American Boom'') Angas, nor a blast of optimism from Propheteer Roger Babson, nor the fact that the American Federation of Labor plumped for the profit system, nor the universal pessimism of brokers' market letters-sure sign of better times ahead-could prevent the stockmarket from going down, down...
...Toronto Stock Exchange are now worth $60,000 and hard to get at that. Only three U. S. firms have seats. Only one U. S. corporation-American Cyanamid-has applied for Toronto listing since the Stock Exchange Bill was enacted. But Toronto has been reveling in an unprecedented boom in gold shares, and what the 113 members of the Toronto Board devoutly hope is that more & more U. S. money will be sluiced into Canadian mining stocks. In the ale houses off King Street it is freely predicted that Toronto seats will be worth more than Big Board seats before...
...boom days of 1909 the class of 1884, returned for its 25th reunion presented this aristocrat among chugg-buggies to President Lowell. For many years it served its illustrious master faithfully, but at last was supplanted by a newer creation when the venerable Prexy surrendered to the modern urge for speed. It was given away, on the recipient's solemn promise never to return it to Cambridge, and for years it has cruised about the further reaches of Massachusetts, never till now returning to the scene of its halcyon days...
...tens of thousands. So runs the modern psalm from which Author Flodson has taken his text. But readers who excusably shy off from one more English story of industrial tragedy in the Midlands need not be so quick to leave Author Hodson's vicinity. This novel of the boom and its collapse in cotton-spinning Lancashire is woven with a deft hand; though the pattern is not new, Author Hodson keeps it from seeming drab...
...face of which he finds what he calls "Niraism" (the New Deal) helpless and meaningless except insofar as it serves to call in the State to bolster up a sagging economic order. Working backward, he considers the "Golden Age" which he insists was by no means everybody's boom. Farmers were excluded and "real" wages remained practically stationary by holding their own with rising prices, no more. But profits increased enormously. These profits were appropriated by "the owners of the means of production" and since they could not be "consumed," were turned into increased "capital...