Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flow of fresh air several hundred per cent, have made it possible to mine copper and other metals where ore veins reach a depth of more than 5,000 feet and the rock temperature is 115 to 120 degrees. Practically the whole population of Butte (80,000 in boom times) is dependent on the industry, and the total production of the district is now in excess of $1,500,000,000, employing as many miners as are employed in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico combined...
Thus did Daniel Hoan, one-time chef, self-made university graduate, self-made lawyer, self-made politician, open a boom for Debs. Milwaukee is a Socialist city, but Hoan by his own abilities has been in office (as city attorney) even when the Socialist ticket as a whole was defeated. In 1916 he became mayor of Milwaukee and carried the city for the Socialists with the slogan: "Public Ownership of Public Utilities...
...inflation of land and real estate values, inflation of wages, and a general inflation in prices produced by inequitable and excessive taxation are obviously factors in the present situation. Sudden liquidation through a collapse in any of these is quite improbable; a gradual dying out of the present boom is more likely. Such an outcome the fitful ups and downs of the stock market today are apparently reflecting some distance in advance of the event...
...possible, of course, for a man occupying a high public position to hold opinions unbiased by political main chances. But in the present case, after a continuously rumbling presidential boom, after the frequent closeted conferences at which "nothing of a political nature was discussed", after the solemn prognostications of political seers as to the effect of the governor's approval or veto, the evidence is strong that his opinion was political as well as personal. And yet his approval would seem highly impolitic unless Governor Smith has a keener eye than most men. To secure the Democratic nomination...
...Druggists of Louisiana, in convention assembled at New Orleans, launched a boom to make Governor John M. Parker President of the United States. The Governor opened the convention with remarks inviting friendly and helpful criticism. His term expires in May, 1924, and he states that he is not a candidate for any office...