land-boom

The Federal Hotel was su­p­erseded in the land-boom, when the Federal Coffee Pal­ace 1888 was built, also by Pitt, but in a far more opul­ent high-Victorian manner.

Coffee Palaces, Temperance and Melbourne Hels 2009

The Federal Hotel was su­p­erseded in the land-boom, when the Federal Coffee Pal­ace 1888 was built, also by Pitt, but in a far more opul­ent high-Victorian manner.

Archive 2009-02-01 Hels 2009

One of the newspapers quoted a smarty-pants who said of the 1926 hurricane, the herald of the land-boom collapse, the breaker of the Lake Okeechobee dike, “It shows what a soothing tropic wind could do when it gets a good running start from the West Indies.”

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

I am the wife of a rancher who went bust in a land-boom and is compelled to start life over again.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

The collapse of a land-boom in Oregon, the failure of a building association in Austria — anything may start the chain of destruction.

What Communities Lose by the Competitive System 1900

The collapse of a land-boom in Oregon, the failure of a building association in Austria - anything may start the chain of destruction.

What Communities Lose by the Competivie System 1900

All I can say is, this old ranch is open to you, and shall be so long as we stay hyer -- though I am mighty uncertain how long we shall be able to hold out agin this new land-boom.

The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900

It was to Calistoga that we went; there was some rumour of a Napa land-boom at the moment, the possibility of stir attracted Jim, and he informed me he would find a certain joy in looking on, much as Napoleon on St. Helena took a pleasure to read military works.

The Wrecker 1898

Why was Jenks-Smith inspired to start a land-boom here and fate allowed to make fashion smile on it, when we were so uneventfully happy, so twinfully content?

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896

There was nothing to remind one of the humble capital, of buts and sheds of the long-vanished day of the land-boom.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872