Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, not quite one year after the beginning of the most enormous peacetime calamity in U. S. history, residents of the Mississippi Basin, looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what...
...Angel Gallardo expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
...close of the War: 1) Throughout Alsace-Lorraine there will shortly be tried numerous pro-German citizens charged with plotting against France; 2) At the very time when passions are being stirred by these trials, Alsace-Lorrainers will be casting ballots in the French general election of this Spring...
...tariff schedule of 1,200 items was announced by its drafter, M. Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...
...success of the Spring grain sowing campaign will determine the progress and tempo of our whole economic structure for the next two years...