Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chemistry at Appleton, Wis., waited skeptically for Dr. Herty to show that his paper can be used effectively in a full-size newspaper press running at high speed. That he may be able to do so for competitive production may well set the South dreaming of another pine-scented boom...
...close observer of the vibration experiments has been Bailey Willis, Leland Stanford's professor emeritus of geology. Southern Californians consider fluffy-bearded Professor Willis a mischievous hoot owl because, after the devastating 1925 earthquake at Santa Barbara and during the Los Angeles boom, he indiscreetly predicted that the next violent upheaval of the Pacific Coast would occur, as it did. in Southern California. At that time he commented: "Men's memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American...
Heavy Chinese field guns boom-boomed all week not far from Shanhaikwan, the only city inside the Great Wall of China held by Japan. When nothing came of all this booming, Japanese suggested that the roar of China's guns (possibly firing blanks) was a bluff "to scare off our observers and cover large Chinese troop movements into Jehol...
...himself as president, treasurer, general manager and purchasing agent, he made Willys-Overland a leader in its field during the next decade. The Industry regards him as its pioneer in instalment selling. But Willys-Overland was overshadowed by the rise of General Motors and Chrysler in the great motor boom of the 1920's. No dividends were paid on the common stock from 1920 to 1928. In 1929 Motorman Willys rested from his labors, accepted President Hoover's offer of an Ambassadorship as a reward for fat contributions to the G. O. P. He sold his control...
President Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush of American International Corp. is a potent booster of gold stocks. To celebrate Ontario's gold boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...