land-office business
Example Sentences
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Almost since the label was founded in 2008 it has done land-office business.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2014
For those who prefer not to improvise, garden stores are doing a land-office business in beneficial nematodes, antislug mulch and dozens of bio-organic plant boosters.
From Time Magazine Archive
In time most of the children of Auckland took up the monkeys' cause, and the local fruit dealer did a land-office business as moppets flocked around to buy bananas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seven Beauties, Wertmuller's cauter izing comedy of survival and desperation during World War II, was greeted with critical bouquets and land-office business at its Manhattan opening.
From Time Magazine Archive
For days, department stores, electrical appliance stores, the Sherman Clay piano store, even the jewelry store Weisfield & Goldberg had been doing a land-office business selling new Philco 61F Olympic Special cabinet radios.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
