Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (195,000 men). With Marshal Feng's potent aid, Marshal Chiang accomplished the capture of Peking last Spring (TIME, June 4); and since then, with all China at least nominally subservient to Nationalism, the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek...
...United Security Bank & Trust Co. of San Francisco and his Merchants National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles are merging their 140 branches and $395,000,000 resources. This California Bank of America is distinct from the Bank of America National Association, which Mr. Giannini's men created last spring with three New York banks. These two Banks of America and their constituent organizations are on very friendly financial relations with each other and, of course, with Mr. Giannini's San Francisco Bank of Italy, and with his investment company which owns so much of their individual and merger stocks?...
Before Leonor Fresnel Loree last spring was forced to abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...Spring came, spring went, summer came, summer went, while Physician Loring preserved an impenetrable silence. Last week he issued one of his rare, terse statements. He announced he would enter the textile business, outstanding and lamentable sick man of the U. S. industry...