dollar decade
nounEtymology Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).
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The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
- Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties
- Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.2014, Melissa Walker, James C. Cobb, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- Roaring Twenties, Great Depression