Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There's a general feeling of optimism in the air. You can almost reach out and touch it. The Depression has run its course. The upturn has come. We go ahead in spurts. It's time to spurt again to new levels of prosperity. Adjustment, that's the word. Therein lies the solution to most of our problems. The United States has a large volume of buying power unused. Buyers have been afraid to spend their money. The job is to unleash the buying power...
Another statistic which General Dawes must have pondered last week was bank clearings. After a brief spurt a fortnight ago they slumped badly last week. Twenty-one cities outside New York ran 46.3% below 1931 and including New York the average decline was 52.6%. Heaviest loser among the cities reported was Boston with a 58.7% drop for the week. During the first quarter the total decline averaged...
Trusts. Consolidation in the investment trust field took another spurt last week. Tri-Continental Corp., sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., bought control of Broad Street Management Corp. which carries with it control of Capital Administration Co., Ltd., an investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and a management contract with Broad Street Investment Co. The purchases swell the net assets controlled by Tri-Continental to over $40,000,000 by adding...
...seconds. Conditions for the trial were excellent over three-quarters of the course, yet not so good as last Saturday, when the first trial was held. Nevertheless, this second workout was fully a minute better, despite a bumpy final mile. The stroke remained at 30 right until the final spurt, when the oarsmen went up to 36 and looked smooth indeed in doing so. More than anything else, the impressive factor was the smoother oarsmanship and better run as compared not only with the showings in the sprints but with the final workouts last week...
Appearing very mild-mannered and quiet, not at all like the "Whataman" of popular belief, Shires, asked about the Braves' chances of staying in the lead of the National League commented, "The Braves have never had a spurt like this nor have they won so many games in early season, and I believe that they will stick up in the first division at least...