Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floors, automakers last week concentrated on stepping up production. Though Chrysler Corp. suffered a 14% drop in output because of labor troubles. General Motors scheduled a rise of 25%, Ford 21%. Not until dealers have all the cars they want, sometime in January, will automakers know whether the present spurt is temporary or the signal of a good year ahead. Only then will the industry know whether auto sales can avoid the sharp dip of last January, when the auto recession really...
...Spurt Yields Three Goals...
Even standing on her toes, tiny (5 ft., 95 Ibs.) Shari Lewis is hardly likely to inspire a spurt in the spinach market, but she can inspire almost anything or anyone else. Five times a week, more than half a million sets within range of New York's WRCA-TV click on at 9 a.m. for Hi Mom and its highly successful potpourri of sense and nonsense. For prekindergarten children, there are songs and games, puppets and magic; for mothers, there are health tips and stretch-the-budget menus. For late-rising males, who write her lots of letters...
...Government economist predicted that defense orders will taper off after their recent spurt. Viewing the expected softening in housing and Pentagon procurement, he said: "We may be entering a period of somewhat more sober views of our economy, maybe a feeling of some disappointment. This will not be because our economy is declining. It will be, if it develops, because our economy is not expanding as rapidly as some of this recent exhilaration has suggested it would do. The fault will not lie with our economy but with our views...
Yale scored in every quarter, taking a quick 8-0 lead after a Crimson fumble. Willy Welch took the ball five yards through the line for Yale's first score and Chris Vachris continued the rout with an 11-yard spurt around the Crimson's left end in the second quarter...