Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First batch of 200 picked Jewish and non-Jewish families, with equipment and sufficient capital to get them started, will arrive in Santo Domingo this spring. They will be settled on a smiling plot of 26,685 acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the extent of 24 dwellings, a reservoir, 4,950 acres of cultivated pasture land and abundant timber. All this was donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic...
...fate of Finland had become a matter of time, and accident. If Field Marshal Mannerheim's able commanders could continue to sell their ground dearly and slowly, then Russia might have no more than the Karelian Isthmus by the time spring's thaws and freshets came to the aid of the defenders. And then if-and only if-manpower and materiel came from other countries in ever-increasing quantities, Finland might turn the tide. With Russian bombs falling on the Swedish town of Pajala and Sweden approaching a crisis over help to the Finns, with Turkey growing restless...
...Spring's first breath came to France last week. Horse racing resumed at Auteuil. British Tommies whipped the French Poilus 36-to-3 at rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...
Nearly all the popular music heard over the air is controlled by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a composer's union which collects royalties on every musical broadcast. Last spring Montana broadcasters got so fed up they had a law passed outlawing ASCAP's royalties. When ASCAP insisted on royalty payments, one broadcaster filed charges of extortion. Montana authorities then tried to arrest ASCAP's genial President Gene Buck...
...union here and in New York threatened to stage walkouts on the Pudding, if it hired a non-union orchestra. Brown explained that he could not afford to anger the unions since the Crimsonians intend to join the musicians' local here and to enter the commercial jazz field this spring...