Word: booms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sometimes the stock market means what it looks as if it meant; sometimes it does not. But now these have developed outside signs of breakers ahead too. Even realtors are declaring the construction boom, particularly in the East, is somewhat overripe. The usually reliable industrial barometer of steel production has apparently reached its peak and begun to turn downwards, rather the way it did last year. Even the better foreign news has apparently been "discounted" in the markets, and has proved insufficiently cheering to allay a feeling that things are likely to get worse before they get better...
...Review has published some illuminating statistics on the current boom in construction. New building permits filed last March call for the expenditure of $318,926,000, compared with $248 million in the month preceding, $189 million in January, 1924, and $292 million in March...
Many times has the Presidential boom of Hiram W. Johnson been wrecked in the prevision of political correspondents. But never had it come so close to annihilation as it did before a Michigan Central freight train...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic irreconcilable, whose boom is being fostered by the Hearst press, lifted his voice at P'eoria, Ill., exclaiming: "On the heels of the War . . . there was a flood of resignations by every sort of Government employee, from department clerks to Cabinet officers...
...Anti-Republican boom found echo in the University on Thursday afternoon when the Harvard Democratic Club organized and began to lay plans for taking on active part in the coming presidential campaign...