Word: spring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's surrounding waters warm each spring, 200 bodies rise to the surface...
...fashioned as best-selling Dr. Arthur Emanuel Hertzler. The Protestant monthly (most successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next spring Parson Gilbert's life story. Tentative title: Horse Sense and Homelike Religion...
...this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
...Until last week Wall Street wags were describing 1939's spring bull market as the one that walked away from the steel stocks and left them right where (some below) the last bear market had flung them. Last week the market ended its sorriest month in 18 years (11,967,390 shares traded), was slipping back toward depressed steels: after the rail stocks failed to Dow-confirm June 10's industrial high of 140.14 (TIME, June 26), the industrials had fallen more than 10 points...
...politics come easy to Europe's masters of power politics. Europe's Cartel is about two-thirds Potash Syndicate of Germany, some French, less Polish. Its bankers are British. Spain, an independent producer, thoroughly undercut the trust's prices in 1933 and 1934. But in the spring of 1935 the Syndicate, thanks to German control of Spain's oldest potash company, made a tentative deal with Spain. Immediately the world price snapped back from its trade...