Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from last January's estimate. Major factor in the rise: costs of the new soil bank and higher-than-expected expenditures to support farm commodity prices. More than offsetting that increase, however, was a $4.3 billion rise in the estimate of receipts, to $69.8 billion. Reason: a big spurt in personal income-and hence in anticipated income taxes-reflecting the continuing and growing prosperity. The net result for the budget is an anticipated surplus of $700 million, almost twice as much as predicted in January...
Thus, with a bright spurt of one of the most carefully wasted literary talents of the century, Author Henry Miller admits readers into his own first meeting with Conrad Moricand. Conrad must be conceded to be one of the least lovely characters of modern times. He was an astrologer, drug addict, scholar, louse, lamprey or -to reduce it all to Miller's own explicit prose-a "phoney bastard...
After edging up all spring, the U.S. cost of living has reached a record high and is expected to go higher. In June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, the Consumer Price Index (1947-49 = 100) took its biggest monthly spurt in nearly five years-0.7% over the previous high of 115.4 reached in May (and equaled once before in October 1953)-Chief reason for the spurt: a sharp (2%) rise in food costs, partly seasonal. Said BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague, who saw no signs of inflation in the jump: the index "will probably creep up a little...
...plow back huge amounts into research and development. Douglas Aircraft, which increased first-half sales by $17.2 million, saw its net drop from last year's by $860,000. Reason: huge research costs for the Douglas DC-8 jet transport. Better off was Cessna Aircraft. Its big spurt in private aircraft sales returned net earnings of $3.83 per share for the nine months ending June 30, up 50% from a year...
Bergantino tripled in the sixth to spark a final three-run uprising which was enough to hold off a final Middie spurt. Bob Kessler started and got credit for the win, but was relieved in the sixth by Bob McGinnis, who did a creditable job in the last three frames...