Word: boom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week as President Borno, of Haiti, heard the combined U. S. fleet boom out the full presidential salute of 21 guns in his honor Brigadier General John H. Russell, U. S. High Commissioner of Haiti, quietly sent his annual report to Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington. Praise he gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro...
Meanwhile, the Reed boom did not die. People cheered him, damned him, looked into his history...
...last summer when Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of several newspapers, notably the Rochester Times-Union, in the lush butter & egg, and grape juice counties of New York, reached far out and bought the Sentinel, largest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23). That twin town, that tobacco-boom town, must certainly be a "comer" if Frank Ernest Gannett was goin? in there with a newspaper, they thought. But either he was mistaken, or it was too fast a boom town for even Frank Ernest Gannett to keep up with, or he made a good turnover, or he just...
...that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials. What if the banker put this clerk in charge of a Florida boom scheme, which became such a prodigious success that Floridans begged the promoter to become their Senator? What if the banker ordered him to accept, so that, by his one passionate theft, a man with a slave's psychology became an Honorable, eligible for the highest office in the land...
...biggest item in the cost of producing farm stuff is the cost of land?i. e. its rental value. Many a farmer bought land during the War boom when farmland was worth more than it is today. (The effects of this situation are gradually wearing off?but it is still one of the factors in the farm-problem...