Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 27?which, like most of its predecessors, I have read from cover to cover?you print an interesting discussion of Major Angas' book, The Coming American Boom; and while giving to one of its publishers, Mr. M. Lincoln Schuster, due credit for his skill and initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict...
...cream of Germany's motor boom was in sales to Nazi Party locals which lavishly bought cars "for official business" until checked by the blood purge and Herr Hitler's bullet-backed injunction: "The true Nazi must lead the simple life...
Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...
...Coming Collapse in Rubber, about the same time the Stevenson restriction plan smashed and rubber started its long slide from $1.04 to 3¢ per lb. In 1931 The Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed by a 90% jump in the stockmarket. More to the point, Major Angas has been adviser to the big London stock exchange house of Myer & Co., has a short...
...long time Wall Street has buzzed with chit-chat about a new Angas pamphlet. Manhattan brokers urgently cabled for summaries the moment it was off the press. Financial pundits found long paragraphs in the scraps that drifted across the Atlantic. Last week The Coming American Boom was published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster...