Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repercussions. Leading U. S. cotton experts were in substantial agreement that: 1) Even a brief Lancashire strike would depress the market for raw cotton as British orders were curtailed. 2) Only a long Lancashire strike would boom the U. S. cotton textile trade. Reason: the British mills have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses...
...boom left us with tremendously increased housing facilities and expanded facilities of all kinds, including a heritage of carpetbagging politicians whom we have unfortunately not as yet assimilated or perhaps canned...
Today Mr. Henderson is the Foreign Secretary of His Britannic Majesty. Last week it was a wary and reserved, not a handshaking Henderson who received Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky from Paris. Foreign Secretary Henderson was careful not to boom, "Hullo, old fellow!" Times have not only changed but utterly altered. The leaders of the British Labor Party now claim that they have not, and never had, the slightest tinge of Red. Electioneering on that basis, they emerged with 289 seats from the recent General Election (TIME, June...
...Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata. Exaggeration of conditions then produced disastrous bank runs. Deposits in the closed banks totaled more than...
...Land Boom. The land boom aftermath consists in the principal of notes, made in boom times, falling due and not being paid. Frozen assets in the shape of uncollectable paper have put many a Florida bank in a tight position...