Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, seeking to find out where the original Brown Derby was bought, newsgatherers found no less than three hatters claiming the honor-Knox, Young and Truly Warner. The Knox company said that Candidate Smith purchased four or five of its hats per annum. All hatters look forward to a boom year, not even counting election bets...
Suddenly came a boom, a roar, and the Square of Julius Caesar trembled as if a giant had stamped. Clouds of dust surged up over the crowd and cloaked for an instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded. Merciless because inanimate it had blown the laughing girl-child so utterly to atoms that afterwards only her left hand could be found, and identified by a thin, cheap ring...
...those early years, Harry Sinclair helped fix the standard type of U. S. oil-boom promoters. His energy was tremendous. His big smile and loud, harshly good-natured laugh would persuade strong men to work and inspire other gamblers' confidence. But, if necessary, Harry Sinclair could drive strong men to work and outsmart the money fellows. He was, and still is, as shrewd as they come in the whole shrewd oil game. His big laugh and heavy hand are the foils of a cunning mind...
...happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never did a big butter-&-milk man have his job turn out a more...
...phenomenal is the boom that Aviation, pioneer among the dozen airplane magazines now crowding the newsstands, solemnly issues a warning to the industry. Good things do not last forever, says Aviation editorially, and if flying is to be maintained at its present speed, the manufacturers and commercial airlines must undertake advertising and publicity campaigns to supplement the more spectacular aerial achievements...