Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock market, led by the motor shares, had continued to soar for months and a reaction was obviously overdue. In such a situation, as has often been proved, the crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord...
Untroubled by mundane developments, the Sherifian Escadrille, composed of U. S. airmen, continued to soar into the Moroccan ether and drop therefrom tons of bombs...
...miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without the prospect of losing any of their market by the public's taking to soft coal as a substitute. To the miners, it would mean a chance to obtain a wage increase, since all coal prices would soar tremendously, and there would be prospect of such large profits to operators that they might more willingly accept a wage increase...
...Union soft-coal operators should repudiate their agreement, there would be a strike. If this came in combination with a strike in the anthracite regions, there would be a coal scarcity, prices would soar and, for a time, all mines could open up and sell at a profit...
...Week. With ten defeats out of the last 13 games played, the University nine faces the most difficult kind of prospect if it is to triumph over the Blue. Princeton, with Caldwell in the box, bowed to the New Haven team on Saturday, a defeat which makes the odds soar even higher on Yale against the Crimson...