Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra glanced at their music, Song of the Volga Boatmen, scored for wind instruments and percussion, poised their instruments, as their eyes turned on the conductor. His baton twitched. "Boom" went the bass-drum in answer. It answered again and again, its portentious stroke punctuating the strains of the Boat Song, composed by Stravinsky, conducted by Stravinsky...
...boom in Florida has apparently far from spent its force. The state is about as large as New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined, and has 20,000,000 acres of untouched fertile soil. The increase in value of all property in the state from 1912 to 1922 is estimated at 162.9%-a record second only to that of North Carolina, with 175.7%. Population of Florida cities has increased swiftly in the last four years. Jacksonville has grown 36%, from 91,000 in 1920 to 125,000 in 1924; Miami 153%, from 29,000 to 75,00; Tampa 93%, from...
...rails, but more uncertainly and subject to larger reactions. Moreover, securities of different industries have behaved quite differently. Industrial news continues to become more encour- aging. Last week, the copper industry began to cheer up, as the iron and steel industry had already done. Yet prospects of any industrial boom are still far away, and the slowly rising market for most industrial securities seems to predict a powerful although quite grad- ual improvement in industry itself next spring...
...just retiring. The report was, as usual, for the fiscal year-ended June 30, last. It showed an increase of traffic through the Canal of 38.7% over the previous year. A great part of this was due to large shipments of oil from California. Deducting all this temporary boom-oil, however, canal traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated $24,290,963. This brought the income from the canal to more than $16,000,000, as compared to $10,000,000 in the previous year and to $3,000.000 in the year before that. Adding in the sums earned...
...Boom, boom-boom, boom, boom. To the noise of that word marched the stocks of the N. Y. Stock Exchange last week. Up the narrow white street of the tape they paraded, left foot, right foot; point after point, up went steels, up went rails, up went sterling. On Saturday, a record was reached. The trading done on that day was only once exceeded in the history of the Exchange -on a Saturday, and that once in panic-time-the silver panic of 1906. It was not until 20 minutes after twelve noon, normal closing time, that the demented ticker...