Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large wooden enclosure had been con- structed, electric search lights set up; and concession stands equipped, while barkers with glaring signs were urging the crowds to view the unknown pre-historic monster in his last resting place for 25 cents per head. The farm looked as if an oil boom had struck...
Seldom does the CRIMSON attach itself without reservation to a political boom. Yet when such a peculiar case, such a worthy one as that of Summer-field Baldwin comes to the notice of this paper, traditions fall by the wayside and all is forgotten but a definite desire to see success crown the efforts of hard laboring humanity. For Mr. Baldwin is hardlaboring. There can be little question of that. His very writing proves it. In the excerpts from his article, "The Next President of Harvard--A Prediction", published in the Transcript of yesterday one discovers the hard labor...
Last week, four Congressional districts in Missouri, unable to restrain their fervor, began to boom Senator Reed for President. In Livingston county, where once the name of Mr. Reed was anathema, they said: "The most commanding figure in the greatest deliberative body in the world, we indorse him as Missouri's candidate for President of the U. S." In his home town (Kansas City), they said: "He has a horror of corruption."* Democrats from coast to coast perked their ears, pondered on that impressive 64-year-old figure of Senator Reed. They thought of the year 1928; remembered that...
...ahead of the boom Frank Gannett was when he made his plans, he alone could say. How long before the most provincial Americano will be thoroughly conscious of Winston-Salem's place in the sun, is also a matter of conjecture. But with a Gannett paper in town, Winston-Salem's light is in no danger of bushel-burial, despite a curious feature of that town which any friend of Mr. Gannett's would not fail to remark should he accompany the publisher down there some day to look things over...
...marble lobby of the Hotel Robert E. Lee, the illuminated original of Camel's famed advertisement, "Standard Equipment," greets all comers, whose attention is next attracted by a tablet emblazoned with Winston-Salem boom statistics. With those statistics on view, it is natural for many a Winston-Salemite to believe that all the world lives in his prosperous city. But there is a cosmopolitan aristocracy there also, whose spacious country homes you come to while driving out of town on the well-paved roads. There are the Chathams, the Grays, Haneses,* the Reynoldses, whose sons and daughters go north...