Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...
BUTTERNUT ON THE NIGHT WE DID THE BOOM BOOM. Fred Hall and His Sugar Babies. Good...
Greater in bore if not in range than Nominee Curtis was Big Gun Borah, who was sent to boom in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. He, too, used Prohibition projectiles chiefly. There was a noticeable departure from the close reasoning, which usually marks the Borah manner. Perhaps because he felt that understanding diminishes and emotion increases below the Mason-Dixon line, Senator Borah voiced phrases and protestations such as the following...
...elevate a motor concourse above the railroad right-of-way now labelled Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
There was, however, a pause after the 21st boom, which divided the 40 detonations into a 21-gun salute for President William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, and a 19-gun salute for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, both on board the cruiser...