Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such was not the case. The whole soap industry was in the midst of a boom but the boom was false and frothy. What touched it off was a 3?-per-lb. tax on nearly all imported vegetable and fish oils in the pending revenue bill at Washington, a tax originally aimed by U. S. farmers at Philippine coconut oil. No matter how scented & savory, most soap is basically fat and caustic soda.† The trade paper Soap estimates that U. S. soap makers last year used 1,500,000,000 lb. of fats, of which two-thirds came from...
...finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which dropped unsought into the laps of U.S. bicycle makers. In the middle of the 1890's when Daisy Bell ("But you'd look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two") was a song hit, 1,000,000 bicycles was a normal year...
...Cord announced he had bought New York Shipbuilding Corp. for $2,000,000, that company got contracts for some $38,000,000 worth of U. S. war-boats. Fact: Cord's bids were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins...
...floor of the ancient rambling London Stock Exchange was bedlam all last week. Brokers shoved and shouted as the boom in West African gold stocks spread to other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial...
...George V: "His Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous-someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.-like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they...