Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spur this industrialization, Governors of nine southeastern States (Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama) year ago formed a "conference." At the top of their program they put equalization of the freight disparities...
...bucket of water on the dying embers of emergency railroad legislation. With carloadings at the year's lowest last week and 141 Class I roads reporting a $28,000,000 loss in March against a $24,000,000 net income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...
...afternoon last week for the Department of Agriculture's definitive June 1 estimate of 1938 crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were not quite so bad as most had anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...
...spots. Said he: "I find myself shrinking into microscopic tininess beside the influence and the commerce we here set in motion." Next day an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the application of Gilbert Gable's Gold Coast Railroad for a permit to build a 90-mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland on the Southern Pacific line 50 miles inland. Soon the Gold Coast R. R., life line of Gilbert Gable's empire since it would be the means of getting ore and timber to the sea or back East by rail...
...Want To Die. Famed correspondents with the Leftists, such as New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who have kept cabling during the 20 months of the civil war that bombs only temper the morale of the people and spur them to greater resistance, last week reported new facts...