Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gloomed over a warning to the House by President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade that Britons may now expect some deflation of the boom which started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...
...until the post-Lindbergh aviation boom did real success come to Sikorsky in the U. S. From his factory in Bridgeport, Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...
...that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder. On a panel ahead of her helmsman, is a full set of airplane navigating
...were selling 200,000 head of cattle to the Government before they died on the hoof from thirst. In some places farmers drove their livestock into woodlots and cut down trees to give them leaves to munch. Travelers through southwestern Kansas reported what they mistook for a new oil boom. Everywhere drilling crews were working night and day driving wells for water...
...into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since Germans are now hoarding goods in fear of inflation there is no dearth of "unhealthy orders," another factor in the boom. Sternly the Economics Ministry sent out fresh reminders last week that Tsar Schmitt has barred all opening of new factories or extensions. Germans must not enlarge the stomach of the great beast of German industry...