Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hughes Out. A "provided-that-President-Coolidge-does-not-run" boom for Charles Evans Hughes was hushed when Mr. Hughes promptly announced that he was too old to be President, that he was for President Coolidge, first, last and all the time. Mr. Hughes...
...against it, if he relies upon most of the current and fashionable methods [of prognosticating]. For some reason the old medicine no longer works. . . . There may be a slight further recession in business for a short time, but it is likely to end in a real business boom, rather than in a genuine depression...
Rallying enthusiastically around the Wilson Boom, U. S. women in Mexico City were said to have promised to raise funds in support of Mrs. Wilson's campaign, to have regretted their inability to add their votes to her cause...
Real Estate. Canadian subdivisions near Detroit, Buffalo, now advertise "Come to Canada and enjoy life." Real estate values in border resorts have dropped in the U. S., risen in Canada. Ontario appears to be in for a large-scale "boom...
...idle dreamer, Mr. Wood is shrewd enough to boom the fat daily as a necessary corollary to his new high-speed printing and feeding machinery. He is one of those manufacturers who take pride in combining the appearance of an English aristocrat with an up-to-the-moment knowledge of aeronautics, yachting, advertising, printing...