Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communists want a government which will squeeze the wealthy industrials until they can get more industrial control and more bread. The Nationalist party is numerous and powerfully organized, especially in Bavaria, while the Communist party, although perhaps not so well organized, is even more wide spread. Unless Herr Stresemann assumes practically dictatorial powers and enlists the army solidly on his side, it is probable that the present government will never weather the storm. In that case the hopes of France and the world will go askew and England will have more time to make up her mind...
...last 26 years, bubonic plague has spread east and west from India in a broad belt which now encircles the globe on both sides of the equator, roughly bounded by the 35th parallels of latitude. In Europe it is prevalent as far north as the 45th parallel, but in the Western Hemisphere it has appeared sporadically only in the large cities of the Gulf and Pacific Coasts. It is essentially a disease of the Tropics. Within this belt no preventive measures have been able to stamp it out. Further to the north or south it has failed to spread, whether...
...fire broke out in the Forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris. Owing to energetic measures to prevent the spread of the conflagration, the situation was reported to be well in hand, and, apparently, there was no danger to the historic Palais de Fontainebleau (a home of Emperors and Kings of France) or to the American colony at Barbizon (once the home of Robert Louis Stevenson...
...rumor spread over the entire world that Herr Stresemann had been assassinated. The Chancellor laughed heartily when he heard the news on the following morning...
...Governor McMaster of South Dakota gained considerable applause when he purchased with state funds some 160,000 gallons of gasoline from a hard-pressed refiner, and offered it for sale at 16¢. At once the Standard of Indiana lowered its price to 16¢ too. The price-cutting war spread to other states. Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, not to be outdone, demanded a similar cut in gasoline prices, under the curious threat, of installing government-owned gasoline stations to compete regularly in the business...