Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martinis & Stardust. To combat the downward trend, many U.S. lodges are hopefully evolving into family-style social clubs, adding TV, air conditioning, bowling alleys, restaurants. Says an Atlanta Eagle: "Our best weapons are bingo, dancing, and a good bar." In San Mateo, Calif., the Elks boosted attendance from 40% to 70% of enrolled membership by installing a swimming pool. In bone-dry Princeton, Ky. (pop. 5,388), one lodge makes its slot machines and beer parlor a drawing card. The Knights of Columbus' San Salvador Council No. 1 in New Haven, Conn, holds "National Nights," when it serves...
Standing on the runway on insectlike legs, the plane had a hunched, tense look. Its nose was a sharp metal spike, and the leading edges of its delta wing curled downward a little, suggesting a cobra's hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
...public last week. Unlike Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s X-13 (TIME, May 20), which stands on its tail while taking off, the X-14 takes off in normal horizontal flying position. Its two jet engines blow their gas through thrust-diverters rather like Venetian blinds. The gas, deflected downward, pushes the airplane up. During the hovering period, jets of compressed air act as controls to keep it in the proper position. After the airplane is well off the ground, the thrust-diverter can be adjusted so that the engines push the airplane forward. When it picks up enough speed...
...Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Arthur Burns, former council chairman and now president of the bureau. Since it accurately foretold the 1947 and 1953 recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession jitters with its steady downward movement. Last week Dr. Reinhold Wolff, head of the University of Miami's business and economic-research department, predicted an "economic dip-perhaps one that will be quite sharp-pretty soon...
...heart of the Administration's long overdue plan to give new sense and direction to foreign-aid spending. Still to come is an appropriations measure to provide the actual funds for fiscal 1958. Looking toward that, Democrat Johnson was cautious: "It may be that some downward adjustments can be made. This is a problem which we can solve when we consider the appropriations bill." But if Johnson foresaw a problem, he and his fellows also had created a precedent. By taking their stand against Morse and Talmadge during the public debate, and backing up a majority conviction with...