Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding Navy aviator, the eldest of five Annapolis-bred brothers, Crommelin had had a distinguished airman's career on Pacific carriers. Since last spring he has been serving in Washington as a naval-aviation expert on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last fortnight he had suddenly burst into print with charges that the Navy's offensive power was "being nibbled to death...
...James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief...
Leaders of the British Labor Party had been arguing about the best time for calling the general election, which must be held before next July. Devaluation of the pound (see INTERNATIONAL) settled it. The election would be held next spring, not this fall. As one Labor Minister said this week: "When you have to raise the price of bread, it is probably a good idea to give people time to forget...
...this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...