Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long radio waves can be used to send code and voice across the oceans because they are deflected downward by ionized layers in the atmosphere, and therefore follow the curve of the earth. They cannot be used for television chiefly because they do not offer a wide enough band of frequencies. The shorter waves, including those that are used for TV, pass through the ionized layer and are lost in space...
Recent discoveries showed that on certain frequencies not all of the energy in the line-of-sight signal makes its escape into space. A small part of it is "scattered" downward. Electronics men compare this effect to the scattering of light from a searchlight beam. Not much light is scattered, but often the beam can be seen from a great distance when the searchlight itself is invisible...
Ample Venison. This year big game of all kinds is more plentiful for U.S. hunters. Conservation laws and the adaptability of the animals themselves against the encroachments of man and his machines have reversed the steady downward trend in the wild life population of the U.S. This year, the supply of almost every big-game animal is either holding steady or increasing...
...fact that foreign investors, mainly in the U.S., have been selling Canadian securities to seek higher returns elsewhere. New investment from the U.S. and abroad-the big prop under the Canadian dollar in recent years-also tapered off, and Canada's adverse balance of trade was having its downward effect. The Bank of Canada last week announced an increase in its interest rate on loans to banks, from 2% to 2¼%. The change, mildly deflationary in its effect, may tend to boost the Canadian dollar again, or at least put the brakes on its slide...
Construction, after winning approval of the Cambridge Council, proceeded downward some four feet, at which point the Square's main power line was uncharted. After a shuffling of blueprints and a cautions detour, the digging continued a few note feet, where it met a subterranean chamber extending beneath the sidewalk from the bank's lowest level. On the street they built a five foot five inch metal box housing a mirror, microphone, loudspeaker, window, and a slot for currently. A further adornment is the policeman who directs traffic and advises depositors on the mechanics...