Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to pray for cheap relief in Washington was National Press Building, erected in the 1928 boom which Halsey...
...adored only daughter, takes silent pride in his potent citizenship. Chief interest of his declining years is the building of a cathedral which is to be a mausoleum for himself. On the side he buttresses his already sturdy fortune by canny trading among the hotheads of a real-estate boom. When a lynching scare (in outline the Scottsboro case) threatens to undermine the town's prosperity, the Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses anyway and there is a run on the bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town...
...name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet mill at Grand Junction. Great Western today operates 22 factories, 13 of them in Colorado, produces annually 10,000,000 bags...
...spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry performance inflationists blamed dollar stabilization and brokers blamed the threat of regulation. But more disinterested observers laid it to the flattening curve on the business chart. Trade was still far above last year but the amazing Easter retail boom had tapered off. The drought-inspired rise in commodities was more than offset by fear of a staggering drop in farmers' incomes. Power production was well above the same week of 1933 but a 2% decrease from the previous week was more than seasonal. Automobile production was still setting...
...individuals had made $906,000,000-"despite Depression." His report was based on answers to a questionnaire covering brokers' operations in the two fat years 1928 and 1929, the three lean years of 1930, 1931 and 1932, and the first eight months of 1933 which included the inflation boom. No less than $733,000,000 has been made in the last two years of the Bull Market when stock trading was a major U. S. industry. In 1930 total profits dropped to $71,000,000. Deficits of $2,109,000 in 1931 and $5,519,000 in 1932 were...