Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, some storekeepers bought too much of the wrong things. Expecting a wartime marriage spurt, they stocked heavily on furniture, later discovered that only one bride in three is buying her furniture now. But babies come just the same. So the demand for carriages, strollers, bassinets, etc., is terrific-the supply small. On the other side of the store, row after row of radios and refrigerators are a drug on the market, partly because consumers bought so many of them last year. (July refrigerator sales in New York City stores plummeted 88% below last year...
...White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden spurt of anger he told Buzz that what the Japanese had just done was neither "decent nor Christian...
Burton exhausted himself in his second-set spurt, and Dunlop, after losing the first game, won the next five in a row. Ec A instructor Dunlop played on the University of California team in 1934 in the number three spot...
...conclusions could be drawn after a study of the panoramic picture of U.S. labor: 1) its working conditions are generally excellent; 2) foreign-born workers, particularly, spurt into faster production when the war news is bad; 3) women workers take the war more seriously than men; 4) many workers accept the war boom as their economic personal stepping-stone to a good life; 5) many do not think about...
Pearl Harbor caused a phenomenal rise in sales during December and January, but since then there has been a decrease of almost 50 per cent in bond sales, although stamps are selling better, and it is expected that the fall of Bataan will cause a new spurt...