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...great majority of people appear to believe*. . . that business confidence would be restored if the Budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic activity that would result would accomplish our common aim of recovery...
...Stevens collected 16 and 15 points respectively, chiefly of the long shot variety, to turn a tight defensive battle into a Yale victory. Despite this effective long-range sniping by the two Elis, the contest was not decided until the final ten minutes when Yale staged a determined spurt to put the game...
...aeolian depths of the Park Street subway station, the Vagabond emerged into walls of rain and one of those incomparable Tremont Street typhoons. During a moment of vexation, he wondered if Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith were really worth all this. But Vag fought to subdue his sudden spurt of misanthropy and pushed on. After all, he told himself, he was about to have an opportunity to absorb the liquid words and sly wit of two great Thespians, and absolutely gratis, to boot. True, it wasn't a performance of "The Five Kings," but it was an interview...
...upward trend remained in doubt last week as the Index showed a slight decline of .4 points-from 99.2 to 98.8. The public's spending was off everywhere except in financial centres, where the North American Co.'s $105,000,000 refunding produced a spurt-which is likely to prove brief since no big capital issues are scheduled for the next few weeks...
Last year 6,000,000 U. S. residents took out fishing licenses. Probably twice that number went fishing. They spent more than $10,000,000 on tackle alone* (twice the amount they spent in 1933). Major reason for the current spurt is a vogue for deep-sea angling, increasingly popular in the past five years since it has been dramatized in newsreels and publicized by fishermen like Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...