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...elected in 1946 on both Republican & Democratic tickets); never defeated in any election. He was Republican state chairman from 1934 to 1936, national committeeman from 1936 to 1938, keynoter of the National Republican Convention in Chicago in 1944 (when he put a damper on the vice-presidential boomlet started in his behalf...
...gold camp of Fairbanks in the interior also enjoys a boomlet. Most of its streets are lanes of thick dust; a third of its homes are sagging log cabins; caribou wander disconsolately in its outskirts. But 7,500 people have jammed in where 3,500 lived before, and more are coming every...
...roaring stockmarket pushed sales up to more than 2,000,000 shares. In one wild last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
Massachusetts' lean, shrewd Governor Leverett Saltonstall, for whom a 1948 Presidential boomlet has already begun, made an appointment last week likely to win him friends everywhere. To the chairmanship of the State Board of Parole he named Matthew W. Bullock, 63, onetime Dartmouth track and football star, tall, broad of shoulder and coal black...
...planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...