Word: boomtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor espionage and the more direct methods of fighting unionism are as common in the automobile as in any other big open-shop industry in the U. S. Until the advent of the New Deal, boomtown Detroit was hardly aware that it was in fact open-shop. Its working population had drifted in from rural regions where unions never existed. Indeed, many an automobile worker learned about unions for the first time from the lips of the boss in 1933 when company unionism was budding under NRA's Section...
Since Adolf Hitler's organs of speech are rated by Nazis the Fatherland's most precious possession, Germans were busy last week setting up a special summer Realmchancellory at famed Bad Reichenhall, No. 1 resort in Germany for the cure of throat ailments, today a boomtown jam-packed with many a recuperating brownshirt Demosthenes...
Busy preserving this fiction last week were a U. S. and a British consul. In Hsinking, raw boomtown capital of the puppet Empire, they called upon Manchukuoan officials presumably to protest against Manchukuo's confiscatory oil monopoly (TIME, Nov. 5), treated them as persons, not as officials of unrecognized Manchukuo...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...