Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University continued its annual prize-awarding spree by announcing the winners of two more grants for academic achievement during the past year...
After the Christmas spending spree, we're confronted with income taxes, auto licenses, real estate taxes-all at a time when fuel bills are large. What better cause for a slump? Spreading these out would leave us less vulnerable...
...etched in bas-relief-nearly flat characters caught in symbolic or merely arbitrary poses. The book is even shallower when it tries to be most profound, e.g., in suggesting that the major is the compulsive victim of his self-corrupting power when he goes on an irresponsible shooting spree to avenge the killing...
...sales of soft goods, they were still so strong that the U.S. Commerce Department reported January sales ahead of a year ago. All told, said Commerce, U.S. retailers did $15.5 billion worth of business last month to start off 1958 with the greatest selling spree in history and a new record 5.4% better than last year's peak...
...present price headaches are caused mainly by a hangover from a four-year spree. As demand began to soar in 1954 in the worldwide boom, Chilean, African and U.S. producers boosted production and opened new mines. Copper supplies were still so short in 1956 (after a 43-day U.S. strike in 1955) that free market prices in London were bid up to 54.6?. "Now," says Kennecott's Cox, "automotive production is down and so are housing starts. Utilities have slowed their expansion programs. Those are our three biggest customers. And there was that price; when it climbed past...