"They need me!" the familiar voice boomed by telephone.
An old telephone truck, fitted with a boom, served as a crane, and an empty lot along the Miami River as a shipyard.
In the early 1970's, long before the boom in cellular telephones, Nokia set up a small branch here.
"Welcome to the playground," James Lawton said, his words of introduction booming down the telephone line a little more than two years ago to greet this correspondent's arrival into the football writing fraternity.
"The photographer is a f***ing thief,' an exasperated Trump boomed in a telephone interview, referring to the Associated Press photojournalist who shot the initial picture.
In Europe, even a dull old landline-telecoms firm can offer shares, as Belgacom, Belgium's state-owned telephone company, plans later this month.The boom extends to emerging economies, especially in Asia.
The boom in mobile telephony has helped the world's least developed countries (LDCs) above the important threshold of one telephone subscriber per 100 inhabitants.
Drew Alcazar, founder of the Russo & Steele auction house, said in a telephone interview that he had witnessed three previous boom periods in the collector car market before the current one.
Whether it's the PC boom or the start of the telephone era history, it seems, has a way of repeating itself.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday evening, Mr. Rosenberg said that the boom in the American stock market was largely caused by the "radically" expansionary monetary policy of the Federal Reserve.
