Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next month or two is still the auto industry. "If autos don't do it in March and April." says Louis Paradiso. chief statistician of the Commerce Department, "then April won't be the turning point they are all talking about." Despite a hefty sales spurt in late February, production cutbacks and heavy layoffs are still hitting Detroit hard...
Toepfer attributed the sudden spurt in applications to the additional pubilicity given the University by President Kennedy. Since May 1 marks the closing date for applications, Toepfer took a "wait and see" attitude...
...France last week, Gislebertus was enjoying a sudden spurt of fame. Just out was a scholarly book about him (Gislebertus: Sculpteur d'Autun; Trianon Press), and an exhibition of photographs of his sculpture let the public see clearly details that in the Autun church are set too high or lit too dimly for close inspection. The French were obviously delighted by their new celebrity. Culture Minister Andre Malraux pronounced Gislebertus "a Romanesque Cézanne...
Defense stocks have taken a spurt on expectations of greater defense spending. Lockheed has risen 13 points from its 1960 low of 18-despite heavy 1960 losses -and jumped five points last week on news that the Administration plans to step up the Polaris missile program. The success of last week's Minuteman missile shot helped send up Boeing, the prime contractor, and Thiokol, maker of the first-stage engine...
Unlike gold, whose recent London price spurt bedeviled the U.S., a rise in the price of silver would be good news to the U.S. Treasury. The Treasury's vaults have had an unwanted silver lining ever since the Silver Bloc of Western Congressmen pushed through the Silver Purchase Act in 1934. That Depression-inspired law requires the Treasury to buy silver at an official price whenever U.S. silver producers want to sell, until its holdings equal 25% of the federal monetary reserves. The official price was set above the free market price and has since been raised twice...