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Construction Spurt. There are a number of more favorable portents. The long-reticent U.S. consumer may finally be in a shopping mood: retail sales for mid-April were 7% above those for a year ago, and last week Motorola reported a 65% jump in unit sales over April 1970. A continuation of the high level of residential building and a sudden spurt in other construction (up 6% for March on the Dodge index) encourages hope that the owners of all this new living and working space will decide to buy furniture and appliances for it in the not-too-distant...
After rowing the first twenty strokes at a 40 per minute pace the lights settled to a 35 per minute verge for the body of the race before hiking to 40 for the final spurt...
...final round, O'Neal spurted blood from a cut Farneti had opened under the challenger's nose in the previous round. Farneti's jab was coming home with increasing regularity and the spurt started to flow. However, O'Neal was not going to be knocked down-he kept slugging to the bell...
...Uyeda, probably the best 134 in the East, turned in a spurt at the beginning of the second period to break a 3-3 tie and beat Josh Henson...
...enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still that calf kept a "lectle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies...