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
California's plush new $1,750,000 inn at Mammoth Mountain was doing a land-office business.
From Time Magazine Archive
Locksmiths did a land-office business and householders chained their doors at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
So many actresses were arriving in Philadelphia that anyone who noticed might have thought that some face lifter or take-it-off ranch was doing land-office business.
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
