Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Mrs. Fiske, David Belasco and St. John Ervine pooled their artillery and the first big gun of the current season went off with a heavy boom. Despite the reverberations in the theatrical world concurrent with the presentation, the critics were not ecstatically enthusiastic. They deemed Mrs. Fiske magnificent; Belasco, about normal; Ervine, a trifle unsubstantial...
...Republicans, who, it is understood, want to " sit on the volcano "?the theory being that the more who sit on a volcano, the less likely it is to erupt. The regular Republicans want the dinner to be a cordial welcome to one of their number, not the first boom of a new gun in the coming political campaign...
...turn of the half-year, many concerns announced the payment of various bonuses to their employees. The Title Guarantee and Trust Co. of Manhattan, prospering from the building boom, expects to distribute bonuses ranging from 5% to 15% or more upon its annual salary and wage list...
Goldfield, Nev., was made of gold dust in a mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...
...common difficulty in pronouncing its partners' names) its long-established business in German securities and exchange became so unprofitable that the house was compelled to enter new and previously untried financial fields. With very faulty but not uncommon judgment, the house began to float petroleum securities in the boom of 1919-20. Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public. The last venture was in Mexican Seaboard, whose sharp drop was the occasion of the firm's insolvency. Rumors caused a run of frightened...