Word: boom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April, 313 died of smallpox in Bombay. Over $24,000,000 was taken to South Africa in four years by farmer immigrants attracted by advertising. Strolling between the acts at the Palace Theatre, Kohlafeur, you can be bitten by a cobra. Constantinople is dirty and dejected-a busted-boom town, not oversatisfied with Angora. Algiers looks prosperous. Hyde Park of a Sunday is changed; British anti-Socialists, Fascists and Gospelers replace the 'lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk...
...narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming for the defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England's H. G. Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would...
...Standing Committee of the Congress, which, while the Congress is not in session, is the highest authority in the Union. Elections began. "Stalin," sounded a voice. Stalin stood up (cheers) and took his place at a long table on a platform. Kalinin, Kamenev, Rykov, Zinoviev were similarly elected. "Trotzky," boomed a voice and up jumped the ex-War Lord. A tremendous ovation greeted him. Cheer upon cheer shook the walls of the Opera House and made the plaudits for the other leaders seem like the crack of a rifle to the boom of a howitzer...
...state of mind prevalent among business men, however, has recently changed. During the winter, a boom in trade was eagerly anticipated. When, by early spring, this common expectation was shown to be vain, an attitude of alarm spread to some extent. The collapse of stockmarket prices, the St. Paul receivership, the Hindenburg election and other untoward incidents were cited as indicative of calamities to come...
...sensations of the spring has been the recrudescence of building operations. Previously it had been thought, even by mortgage lenders and large operators, that the "building boom" was past its peak, and the evidence of unrented offices and apartments confirmed this view. But the ease in the money market has evidently set the construction industry in motion again...