Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...
Last week, with no rataplan of drums, The Admiral and The Biscuit met at Pimlico. The purse was $15,000-mere horse feed. Both had been beaten by mediocre horses since last spring. But 40,000 devotees, nonetheless interested, jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite...
Forty thousand spectators, limp and hoarse, agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...
...well as tractors, copper, hides and hemp, marble, oil and tin. The instruments will record weather conditions for Export's year-old subsidiary-American Export Airlines, Inc. If their data gives as clear a green light as last week's stock issue, test flights will start next spring with a Consolidated flying boat...
...optimism seemed logical-except for 1929, 1937 was the industry's best year. But behind its optimistic front, the automotive industry knew as well as anyone else that the economic highway was being strewn with tacks. Warily, the industry proceeded with 1938 production, but not warily enough. By spring, when Depression II was in full slump, even low-gear production had turned out many more units than the dealers could move...