Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Datelined Auburn, Ind., but postmarked Chicago, where the company's publicity agents work, a happy fusillade of Auburn statements accompanied the reported Auburn boom. Vice President Roy H. Faulkner announced: "We are exerting every effort to meet this situation and are gearing our plants up as fast as is humanly possible with the hope that within 30 days we will be able to supply the demand. In this we are asking the public and our dealer organization to bear with...
...Free State, seconded by Norway and Sweden, proposed Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Other names frequently mentioned: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. But the reaction of Washington to both proposals last week was negative, and the League left the chairmanship open. The French continued to boom Edouard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. In London during the week Ambassador Dawes (lawyer by trade) attended the trial of a murderer, was present when the prisoner fainted dead away on being sentenced to Death...
...contemporaries in the East. Whereas Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth have long since released capable students from compulsory class attendance and permitted wide freedom in choice of courses, Yale has stood pat to such a point that her onetime (1909-27) Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones was able once to boom forth: "So long as I am here we will never give up the Latin or Greek requirement for a degree in Yale College...
What no oilman likes to contemplate was in progress last week. In Rusk County, eastern Texas, a new, lively oil boom was in full swing. Sober men gravely predicted that the field may turn out to be second only to prodigious Kettleman, may ruin the delicately balanced price situation...
...Crim farm about twelve miles north of the first well, near the village of Kilgore. The entire town turned out for the event. A notable exception was Mrs. Crim herself, who went to church. With this well, which started flowing 22,000 bbl. per day. the boom started. Malcolm Crim has made a living for the past 20 years financing the local Negro farmers. In so doing he has acquired much land around Kilgore. Now he sits in the back of his general store, smokes a corncob pipe, parcels out his scattered estate at from...