Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to?I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
When the Federal Trade Commission became interested in the newspaper-buying activities of International Paper & Power Co. last spring, the fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them...
...Honorable Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Guild of Dyers. A ceremony was instituted, whereby representatives of the King, of the Vintners and of the Dyers were to row up the Thames each summer marking and dividing between them all the little brown cygnets which had been hatched that spring...
...behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President, Vice President, the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the Attorney-General and Postmaster-General...
...favorable conditions under which Commercial National came into being were the prevailing and continued high money rates. For a considerable period last spring loans to brokers bore interest at from 10% to 15% and time loans were well over...