Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corsair" at the invitation of its owner Mr. J. P. Morgan '89, to be entertained with a cruise down Long Island Sound. The weather was bright and warm and in the forenoon, the "Corsair" anchored in a sheltered bay where the oarsmen took advantage of a quickly rigged diving boom and indulged in an hour of swimming and moderate exercise...
Favorite Son Goff beat Candidate Hoover. It was a preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
Diet, dress and demeanor of two desperately bold females in a moment become of head-line importance. Boom, boom go the Hearst syncopators. First class murders, Grade A scandals forth-with fade to the inside pages. The moans of the late Mr. Reading die away entirely...
...other States, the progress of the Smith boom in Smith Week was as follows...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...