Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of big & little business more evident to the eye than in an area round Los Angeles' Municipal Airport called "Airport Alley." Two years ago it was nothing but farmland. In 1951, it was the fastest-growing industrial beehive on the humming West Coast. More than 50 plants sprang up almost overnight. Near the Douglas and North American aircraft assembly plants are new factories making everything from jewelry to bathing suits, from power saws to bedding. In two years the value of the land shot from $4,000 to $43,560 an acre ($1 a square foot...
Though no rebel, young Philip occasionally fretted at the guide-strings. In Lausanne, while standing behind some intent card-playing senators, he "snipped the strings of their breeches" and clipped their flowing wigs to their chairs. Then he cried "Fire!" and the senators sprang up bareheaded and bare-bottomed...
Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...
...articles he reprinted, the other editors woke up to the Digest's size. They started to talk about refusing reprint privileges. Wallace soothed the grumbling magazines by agreeing to pay fat annual fees for reprint rights, in addition to paying for each article used. Imitators of the Digest sprang up by the score-many to wither after one season...
...members, the Reverend George A. Abbe of Gloucester, was ousted from his position as minister by his parish in Annisquam for taking part in the Committee's activities. The Greater Boston Universalist Ministers' Association sprang to his defense Tuesday and several other groups have added support since then...