Word: boom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maximum optimism is still monopolized by realtors. The Florida boom continues, out of season. Recently New York has discovered a new realty boom in its midst at Rockaway, which some believe to be fairly on the way toward rivalling Atlantic City. Building, once far behind demand, is now considerably ahead, according to the statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor, which counsels caution...
...Snyder, Vice Presidents, and W. E. Tobias, General Manager of Purchases. All three men have been with the company for years, and will be retained "in an advisory and consulting capacity." Several of them became independently wealthy through holdings of the original Bethlehem stock during the War boom. But the intensely competitive character of the steel industry today precludes heavy salary overhead to even so large a company as Bethlehem...
...same boom which raised The Miami Herald to its finale, has also elevated The Miami Daily News. Last week the News opened a new $1,500,000 home overlooking Biscayne Bay, a building marked by a great tower?270 ft. high, patterned after the Giralda Tower at Seville. In celebration of the event it published a 504-page Sunday edition, including 15 color sections of 24 pages each. There were about 1,000 illustrations and enough "news" matter to fill 35 books of ordinary size. It also carried advertising of 1,500 business concerns for an aggregate...
Florida's Real Estate Boom has brought, it was asserted, a flock of quacks and irregular medical practitioners to that state...
Miami, Florida, the hotel town, the real-estate-boom town, the Nassau bootleggers' town, the rich Northerners' villa town, decided to have a $15,000,000 University of Miami. Among the incorporators so deciding were Realtor William Jennings Bryan, his daughter Ruth Bryan, James M. Cox, onetime (1913-15, 1917-21) Governor of Ohio. Last week, the incorporators announced their decision, at the same time revealing that they had offered the presidency to Dr. William Lyon Phelps, teacher of English at Yale for 33 years, Lampson professor there since...