Examples of boom town

• He looks to me like one of these confidence men who abound in the western boom towns—men who can talk the other fellow into putting his last cent into some 'sure thing.' 'Sure thing,' he repeated disgustedly. 

• The place was as busy as a boom town in the oil country. 

• Romford has become a boom town in recent years, with growing developments of commercial and retail property.

• Albans is something of a boom town, having excellent location and great beauty.

• Braintree is a housing boom town.

• Corby is a marvellous example of a town that was wholly dependent on one industry, but which is no longer so dependent—and it is now a boom town.

• Out on the frontier, the first need for a boom town was a newspaper.

• The community incorporated for the first time in 1870 and was a boom town, with as many as fifty businesses, in the early 1870s.

• Bagillt remained a hard-working boom town for more than a century.

• Blacksburg became a boom town and hotels and saloons were built for the new visitors.

• Aurora's mines were so rich that the boom town attracted miners to the area from all over the west.

• Goldenville, being the most popular for miners, was a boom town; previously no bigger than it is today, overnight it boomed to hundreds, probably even thousands of people.

• Portie became a boom town.

• Johannesburg, like many other boom towns, grew rapidly and with little planning, and thus the city covers an extremely large area.

• I visited that town recently and it is an absolute boom town, with two or three ships alongside each quay.

• It was a boom town in those days.

• It was a boom town.