Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn. This commission began its work last week, at Denver...
Such an accident disabled two of the four turbines of the Ile de France, in the harbor of Havre last Fall; and she did not sail again until Spring. But, in the words of the goaded French Line: "Various giant liners, of various lines, have suffered this unavoidable misfortune. ... It is to be hoped that there will soon be an end to the unauthentic . . . unwarranted . . . utterly false . . . rumors . . . now coming, we presume, from sources interested in undermining the position of our new flagship. . . . The turbines of the Ile de France were built in England by the most famous manufacturers...
...sister ships, the longest in the world (938 feet), were launched, last week, from German yards, and will go into service late next spring for the North German Lloyd. The sisters are Europa and Bremen. Though slim and expected to challenge the trans-Atlantic speed record held by the Cunarder Mauretania, the Teuton sisters will be no lightweights (46,500 tons each). Thus they will be but little lighter than the two heaviest liners in the world: Leviathan and Majestic, which were originally Hamburg-American sister ships, but were snatched from Germany by the Allies...
...mills produced more than 800,000 tons of paper and pulp. Each year the newsprint demand, particularly in the U. S., rises higher (7% more in 1928 than in 1927), yet so prolific are the mills of the paper companies that the supply always exceeds the demand. Last spring, mills were operating at only 84.4% of capacity. An artificial combine to keep the price of newsprint at $65 a ton collapsed when some members of the combine made a slick deal with Publisher William Randolph Hearst. A price-cutting war followed...
After the second vetoing of the McNary-Haugen bill last spring, Mr. Peek threatened the Republican Party with dire happenings. Nothing happened. Then he went to Houston and had the satisfaction of seeing the controversial principle of McNary-Haugenism written into the Democratic platform. He visited Manhattan last week to learn how the Democrats proposed to elaborate their platform. He arrived with assurances, much like those he voiced prior to the G. O. P. convention, that the Farmer was angry at the G. O. P., that the Farm Problem could be solved by McNary-Haugenism and by nothing else...