Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boom" went the drums, the horns brayed, the feet shuffled, the crowd clapped, "Boom, Boom, BOOM. . . ." To the music of many bands, with 100 floats, drill teams, drum corps, 100,000 Elks paraded through the streets of Chicago. Every one of them was smiling. Every one of them had on his badge. They were partaking in the big parade that marked the third day of their 62nd National Convention, held last week...
...home to dig opulence. With flowing red tie and cartoon-hat, he was as good a miner as the rest-"the most fearless man who ever entered Funeral Range which guards Death Valley." is the title he acquired. He was one of the first into the Rawhide gold boom. He located "Windy Point," "Dead Mule." He went back east, sold his claims, became a man with a fabulous bankroll. So to Europe. There he met Elinor Glyn.* She was enchanted by "Young Hercules." But nothing came of it and later he took to wife the widow of a Vanderbilt...
Over these institutions of recent years has spread a boom spirit. This was given impetus by the completion shortly after the War of the War-built industrial canal, between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. Ocean-going vessels could come up the lake instead of up the 100-odd miles of winding river, gaining thereby some 60 miles of traverse. New wharves and new residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities...
...wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...
...country seemed to go quietly about its business. Optimists did not find it necessary to yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...