Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason: officials, lest they appear to lack revolutionary fervor, stayed at their offices 24 hours a day, were consequently too sleepy to tell a kulak from a zemstvo. Last week the Commissariat of Agriculture predicted, as a result of new good management and the good luck of fine spring weather, a bumper wheat crop of seven to eight billion poods (4,213,183,333 to 4,815,066,666 bushels). The wheat is not yet cut and threshed, and there may be a big discrepancy between grain in the fields and grain harvested, for the Russian peasant is currently...
...This spring his father took him on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Miracles at Lourdes, France, where, good Catholic that he is, Fred quietly hoped for a miraculous cure, went away heartened nonetheless when no miracle occurred...
When U. S. auto production started down hill last spring there was a steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...
...concentrated on gloomy calculations for the crucial second quarter of 1940. They figured on sharp cuts in spending: that WPA under new appropriations would be nearly $250,000,000 under April-June 1939, that PWA outlay, now around $150,000,000 a quarter, would sink to nothing by next spring. In the first half of 1939, although business in general was not booming, nonresidential construction hit a recovery high that exceeded even 1937. For this Government spending was responsible as the figures for contracts let show...
Today Government spending exceeds Government revenues by about $1,000,000,000 a quarter. By next spring the Government's deficit spending will probably be down to $600,000,000 a quarter. New Dealers, certain of a slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit...