7 sentences with “boom”

The cameraman adjusted the boom to capture the sound better.

However, the boom suddenly gave way to recession in the summer of 1920.

The economic boom has done away with the prejudice that people in the region are either very rich or very poor.

While the agricultural revolution laid the foundations for growth and the cities took advantage of it, other factors led to the economic boom of this period.

Also, although canals had existed since ancient times, there was a great canal building boom in the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century.

The element to note is not only the seemingly irrational nature of the boom, but also the mentality: the Dutch moneyed classes were already embracing speculative market economies, in which the value of a given commodity has almost nothing to do with what it does, but with what people are willing to spend on it.

The post-war economic boom in Europe created a huge market for labour, especially in the unskilled labour fields. Thus Africans, Caribbeans, Asians and Middle Easterners from the former colonies flocked to work in jobs that Europeans did not want, because those jobs still paid more than skilled labour from the former colonies.