Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close look at inflation in quite a few countries. I have seen it upset governments, take the bread out of the mouths of workers, the old, the helpless, undermine the operations of business. So I continue to class it as a dangerous fever, which gives the patient a temporary spurt but quickly saps his strength...
...shrugs off such criticism with the impassivity of a baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course, if I have to weight him again, he'll have to pick...
...Gross National Product will not show a defense-fed spurt until 1961's fourth quarter. It will be several weeks before procurement orders roll out, several months before big-scale production begins. Accordingly, Government economists are holding to their previous estimates that the G.N.P. will reach an annual rate of $520 billion in the third quarter of this year. But they have now revised their fourth-quarter projections from $530 billion to $535 billion...
...within a fraction of its prerecession peak, the average factory work week jumped to 40.1 hours, its prerecession level. To judge by past recessions, employers put their workers on longer weeks just before they hire new hands, and a marked rise in hours worked is followed by a spurt in employment an average of four months later...
Cities that set modestly realistic goals are better off. Milwaukee projected 500,000 Seaway tons a year by 1965, may well hit that total this year, helped by a surprising spurt in scrap-metal exports. Ports in Canada are also doing handsomely, partly because railways there are not slashing rates selectively to buck the Seaway as U.S. railroads are doing. Hamilton, Ont., now the busiest port on the lakes, increased its traffic by 600,000 tons last year. Montreal went up 300,000 tons, Toronto...