Word: spurting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less surprising than the Yankees' collapse was the Tigers' spurt. Last spring few experts gave Detroit an outside chance to finish in the first division. They had plenty of punch at bat, but their infield was creaky, their pitching questionable...
Since War II started, Franklin Roosevelt and his men have damped more than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold...
...tough and gamy steelhead trout does not like to be artificially bred. In Oregon hatcheries, breeders get eggs from trapped females by "stripping," or squeezing their bellies so that the eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...
...simultaneous export and defense boom in the U. S. By last week the export boom was out, the defense boom was still in the future, and businessmen figured the barometers had jumped the gun. But meanwhile business operations generally had raced ahead of the stockmarket, which after a brief spurt in June had marked time. Last week manufacturers began slowing down to the stockmarket's pace. They realized that the expected U. S. boom is still on the drawing boards. Mass production of arms cannot start until Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen guides the program...
Happiest note of the week came from Detroit-automobile sales had broken through "normal seasonal slack" to total 405,000 units for June, up 33% from hopeful 1939. One good reason for this month-end spurt (which made up for early-June slowness) was public suspicion that the 1941 new models might be the last for some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting...