Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Coal Strike proved an absolute bonanza to German industry, and many of the British markets captured then (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29) are still held. Recently the Frankfurter Zeitung exulted: "The coal strike was the stirrup and now our industry is firmly in the saddle...
...farm creed last week. Along with that suave explorer-professor-Senator, Hiram Bingham, and that colorless, dispassionate labor chief, William Green of the A. F. of L., Mr. Meredith addressed the New York State Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce...
...Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, the Business Men's Association, and the Mayor's Committee of Dover protested indignantly when it was suggested that perhaps it would be better to remove the arsenal to some distant region, take away from the merchant's their bonanza of soldier trade...