Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in 1939 TIME began publication of its Index of Business Conditions. Since then U. S. business has had a long slow sag, a shorter slow recovery, a sudden stimulant from war, a spurt to new high levels, a leveling off. TIME herewith presents, in relation to these events, a review of the movements of its Index and of the three components (see chart) of which the Index is a composite...
...teams battled to a deadlock in the first half, but after Bill Mayger's free kick in the third period gave the Crimson its first score, the Harvard scoring machine began to roll. With a spurt of excellent passing, heading, and cooperation, the MacDonald men stormed the Brown goal and opened the way for tallies by Mal Miller and George Willetts...
Despite a last quarter spurt by a spirited Indian squad, Coach Henry Lamar's Jayvee eleven finally emerged on the long end of a 19 to 13 count in a game played yesterday afternoon on rain-soaked Soldiers Field...
...spontaneously and unreasonably as buying had spurted, prices mounted. Sugar prices advanced from one to three cents a pound. Lard went up three cents, flour almost a cent. Meat wholesalers took advantage of the spurt in business by advancing veal, pork and beef prices from two to ten cents a pound. California canners upped canned fruit prices 5 to 30? a dozen...
Commodity exchanges went war-wild. Sugar and wheat, essentials for warring nations and their armies, got away in front and by the first day's end had advanced the maximum permissible limits set by the Commodity Exchange Administration (5 to 8 for wheat, for sugar). Popeyed at the spurt but calculating on still further rises, many a holder of wheat and sugar pulled out of the market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper...