Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortunes. Now that the artist has passed into history, the hunt is on again for signed, original Hitlers. He himself remembered having painted 300 pictures, but got back only 50 of them. Last week German dealers were scrabbling for the 250 paintings that may theoretically remain. Mainly to spur search, some of them were encouraging the rumor that a first-class Hitler might bring as much...
...spur lagging sales, there was a new wave of price cuts. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward brought out their mid-spring catalogues with prices slashed up to 37% on hundreds of items. TV makers, whose sets have been selling for months at big under-the-counter discounts, recognized the fact by officially cutting prices by $10 to $90. Food prices continued to slip and farm prices as a whole were 8% below year-ago levels...
...suggested that men change their attitudes towards domestic tasks and assign them a worth that will spur women on to truly creative accomplishments. Americans should change our sense of values to give non-economic activity the same regard as money-making, she concluded...
...increasingly cynical world, he took the words "honor" and "country" seriously. He would literally blanch at the suggestion that all Frenchmen might not instantly rush to the defense of their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason...
...handsome 26 points above 1946's bull-market peak. But for 1951 that was the year's low. The industrial average charged up to a 21½-year record of 276.37 in September. Dividends, which rose from 1950's $9.2 billion to $9.5 billion, helped spur the market. So did the fear of inflation. The blue chips got the biggest play, but all year investors scrambled to buy "growth" stocks. Investors were not betting on the prosperous present so much as on the even more prosperous future. Not even war scares or the inroads of new taxes...