Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 18, 1918, in which he commanded a force more than half of which was composed of U.S. troops. German guns pounded the lines in front of Villers-Cotteré Forest. A strong first line was pushing a German advantage for all it was worth. Of a sudden, a boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines. Behind, great waves of infantry bore down...
Accordingly, a lively platinum boom has set in at Johannesburg, South Africa, which in spirit and extent threatens to rival the Transvaal gold boom of the 90's. The Afrikanders have gone platinum mad. Scores of new platinum companies have been organized, some merely on the basis of leasing land in the "platinum district," their shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and have shot up to 10 or 15 times their original price in a few weeks...
Twenty miles from the Ohio shore, in Lake Erie, is Pelee Island, Ontario. It is having a real-estate boom. One J. A. Baxter and the Manhattan financial firm of Mills Mover & Co. announced plans for "the greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will...
...Talking drums" are the most ancient form of wireless communication; the messages which they boom out can be heard for many miles...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...