Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple meaning. With convertible currency a man who earns money in foreign trade can change it into any other currency, spend it where he likes, without any restrictions. Convertibility would do far more than profit individual traders. Freeing currency and commerce from controls and restrictions would be the greatest spur to world trade and prosperity since World War II. The prospects are so hopeful that last week an eight-nation committee of European and U.S. officials decided to meet in Paris next month to discuss convertibility...
...only one-third of the Faculty ever turns up on Tuesday afternoons. Then too, there is a question of facts, and figures: when the Bender Report for augmented tutorial was presented there were many objections from the affected departments. But Faculty members find it hard to argue on the spur of the moment against men who have devoted months to researching a plan and can spout impressive figures. Administration spokesmen are often much better prepared for debate than their faculty opponents...
...This bit of business, a spur-of-the-moment invention by Bogart, set off one of the many minor crises that developed during the shooting of The Caine Mutiny. Commander James C. Shaw, a World War II naval hero (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima) who put in a 10½-month tour as technical adviser on the movie, objected to it immediately on the theory that an Annapolis man would never butter a whole piece of toast but would first break it into fragments. "I went to school at Andover," huffed Bogart indignantly. "Are you trying to tell me that Annapolis...
...Murchison is busy on a bigger transaction. Last week, in Canada, the Alberta government, by okaying a gas-export permit, in effect gave the go-ahead to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Eastern Alberta to Toronto and Montreal, with a planned spur to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The $3 million Trans-Canada pipeline, which will be half owned by Murchison's Canadian Delhi Oil, Ltd., will be nearly half again as long as the Big Inch. Murchison and his Canadian partners still have to raise the money. But with all the natural...
Class of 1957 President Frederick H. Borsch pointed out that the statement is an expression of sentiment, rather than an effort to argue out the problem. "If this paper does nothing more than to spur the Administration to give its side of the problem," he said," "it will have been a success...