Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having boomed at last, Candidate Hoover prepared openly to boom again and again, at primaries in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Michigan, California, Oregon...
...political lid off a subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon League, was expected to become magnificently resonant...
...Navy." When Secretary Wilbur submitted the "Big Navy" bill to Congress, the boom of billions echoed far and wide. At home and abroad the U. S. has been hotly accused of seeking revenge for the failure of last year's Geneva Conference, at which British and U. S. ideas on cruiser construction became deadlocked...
...course, was once a republic in itself, a land where tradition makes bloody Alamo a Bunker Hill and Sam Houston a George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
Hawaii is more than a paradise in tropic seas. The boom of surf on coral reef, the fiery image of volcanic spray on cloudless night sky, flower-garlanded brown bodies lure U. S. tourists. But those mountainous islands are one with the U. S. in creating wealth from soil and industry. In the capital city, Honolulu, is a Stock and Bond Exchange where the securities of the Philippine Archipeligo's sugar plantations, public utilities, railways and pineapple canners are bought and sold, and where, significantly, are listed the foreign stocks and bonds of Sumatran and Philippine companies financed...