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- noun Plural form of
boomtown .
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America's great home front "boomtowns" back then, spitting out bullets, planes and LSTs.
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America's great home front "boomtowns" back then, spitting out bullets, planes and LSTs.
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Prostitutes were especially successful in the wild, lawless, thoroughly renegade boomtowns of the West.
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To attract women in the highly competitive markets of western boomtowns, where red-light districts nearly always included several brothels, most madams not only paid their employees far higher wages than they would find in any other employment, they also provided free birth control, health care, legal assistance, housing, and meals for their employees.
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Eleanora Dumont purchased real estate in gold and silver boomtowns all over the Rockies and Sierra Nevada, where she established lucrative brothels, saloons, and gambling houses.
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Like their counterparts in the western boomtowns, the proprietors of black-white brothels in the northern cities were pure renegades who cared little for morality, social conventions, or the wishes of the community.
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Some boomtowns grew into the major urban hubs of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Seattle.
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And unlike Dongguan in Guangdong, Kunshan in Jiangsu and other Chinese industrial boomtowns, Wenzhou never depended on foreign investment—or support from China's banks.
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Born in Georgia in 1860, Smith was a gambler and a grifter who by 1897 had worn out his welcome in a succession of Wild West boomtowns, so he decided to go north and set up shop in Skagway.
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Raceways expanded their seating capacity by as much as a third to accommodate the new fans, and Nascar allowed races to be moved from small, historic tracks in Darlington, S.C., and Rockingham, N.C., to megastadiums in such places as the housing boomtowns of Las Vegas and Fontana, Calif., in the heart of the state's Inland Empire.
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