Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the first, Housing Administrator Moffett met obstacles. The campaign mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert...
England has lately had a building boom and last week Sir Raymond Unwin appeared in Manhattan to study U. S. efforts in the same direction. Sir Raymond was knighted in 1932 for giving nearly 40 of his 70 years to planning garden cities and improving Britain's housing. But he found one significant difference between the housing boom in Britain and the hoped-for boom in the U. S. In England 260.000 working men's houses were built in the past year after construction costs had fallen...
...door was hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...
...traders swapped their dollars for pounds, francs, yen, then swapped their currencies for world commodities in U. S. markets. And last week when this market activity was added to inflation talk and both added to the fireworks in domestic farm products, trading in all world staples was whipped to boom-time volume...
This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers...