Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever turned his successful plays into equally successful movies (The Silver Cord, Yellow Jack, Dodsworth). Selznick considered Playwright Howard "a great constructionist" and turned to him in his hour of need. After a brief total immersion in Gone With the Wind, Sidney Howard arrived in Hollywood in the spring of 1937. With Selznick's famed marked copy of Gone With the Wind as a starter, Selznick, Howard and George Cukor (to supply the director's angle) spent twelve hours of a series of hot summer days, hammering out G With the W Script No. i. When finished...
...bushels carried over from the last crop year (of which approximately 175,000,000 bushels are in hock to the U. S. Government), but the chances of wheat staying around $1 were helped by news from Argentina that the wheat crop there was also in bad shape. Reason: late spring frosts. November in the Argentine is the equivalent of May in the U. S. Argentina's expected harvest is around 160,000,000 bushels, less than half of last year's crop...
...Federal Reserve Board. Trade centre turnover fell 9% from the first of the year to the end of April and then began gradually to rise. The Federal Reserve Board index fell 11.5% from its 104 high in December to 92 in May. This was the sagging period of the spring when business had failed to measure up to expectations...
Times were tough in Walla Walla, Wash, (pop. 15,976) in the spring of 1932. The tariff wall which Canada hoisted in the early '205 had finally cut off the valley's chief market for fresh fruits, asparagus, tomatoes. Moreover, its wheat was going begging at 50? a bushel...
Twice to Once. First published in autumn 1938, Twice A Year has established itself as a distinguished periodical, more original in essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year temporarily assumes annual status. It is edited, designed, published and supported by a calm, brown-eyed, well brought up Philadelphian named Dorothy Norman who takes literature and liberalism both together and equally seriously...