Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Exactly as if nothing had happened, Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin came out last week for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.). This was his second coming. Originally he was cold toward this scheme concocted by Baron Beaverbrook, Hearstlike press tycoon, but embraced it last spring to prevent a split in Conservative ranks. Three weeks ago he broke absolutely with Baron Beaverbrook (TIME, July 7). Then, last fortnight, came the British Bankers' Manifesto demanding "Empire Free Trade." By the end of last week Mr. Baldwin had heeded the bankers and plumped for E. F. T. again. Meantime...
...During the last spring, heated argument developed in foreign countries as to whether religion was or was not being persecuted in the Soviet union," observed a bulletin issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week. "The answer to the question depends upon how the word 'persecution' is to be defined. Certainly there has been nothing in Russia that could be fairly compared with the persecutions of the early Christians. . . . There has never been any prohibition of the practice of any form of religious faith in the Soviet union; and every Sunday hundreds...
...Paris in the spring of 1870 Charles Timbal was a well known art critic and collector, Gustave Dreyfus was a well known banker. Critic Timbal had a collection of paintings, bronzes, sculpture, medals of the Italian High Renaissance of which he was inordinately fond. Banker Dreyfus had a great deal of money...
United Aircraft & Transport Corp., which last spring acquired the first transcontinental system of airlines after a bitter fight with the Curtiss-Keyes group (TiME, April 14, et seq.), last week without a struggle extended its control through the Northwest. Already operating the Boeing System from Chicago to San Francisco, and Pacific Air Transport from Los Angeles to Seattle, United closed a triangle by absorbing Varney Air Lines, Inc., from Salt Lake City to Portland, Seattle and Spokane. One share of United was exchanged for two of Varney...
Western porcupines migrate slowly, deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...