Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This he set to music and retitled "Good Morrow! A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery." It was far from simple. Sir Edward Elgar's best known composition is "Pomp and Circumstance." It is a favorite cinema overture, its ponderous measures boom weekly from radio loud speakers...
Eccentric Harald Plum has long been Copenhagen's butter Croesus. The boom of a cannon across the harbor came to mean merely that he was through business for the day and had sailed out to Plum Island, to chomp voraciously through a rich dinner topped with pastry and champagne...
...Vagabond has nothing to say before breakfast on that score. Besides you can read all about the game in Monday's CRIMSON Besides, and what is more important, the Vagabond took up his present occupation in, if he remembers aright. 1926. Anyhow, it was just after the Florida land boom...
...stockholders 7% bonds at 70. Instead of having a bank underwrite the issue, it was done by Mr. Schulte himself. Also last week it was announced Schulte Associate George J. Whelan had sold his interest in the 5? to $1 stores. While at the height of the 1928 Schulte boom it was predicted the stores would have soon 1,000 or 3,000 units, there were last week less than...
...Edward R. Squibb, U. S. Navy surgeon, left the service and set up in a small way as a manufacturing chemist. It was just the right time. The Civil War, a big boom for medicaments, was only two years ahead. So the business went along prosperously, and at the age of 47 (in 1905) was incorporated as E. R. Squibb & Sons. Since then there has been another big boom for medicaments, the World War, which won the company not only profit but an award from the U. S. for distinguished service. That things have not been going backward since...