Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wings on swivels are two small jet. engines made by Fairchild for use in drone targets and guided missiles. Each weighs 300 Ibs. and has 1,000 Ibs. of static thrust. Since the whole airplane, engines and all, weighs only about 2,000 Ibs., the twin jets, directed downward, can lift it vertically off the ground. Controlling a craft that rises in this manner is a tricky business. Even more tricky is converting it to horizontal flight...
Pilot David W. Howe trained for his job of testing the vertically rising jet by learning how to fly a helicopter.* With this experience behind him, he says, he had no trouble at all. The little VTOL, with its engines turned downward, rises easily off the ground. Speed of ascent is controlled by varying the speed of the engines, and the plane is kept on an even keel by juggling the air jets. When it is clear of obstacles, Pilot Howe gets his nose down and picks up flying speed. Then he swivels the engines so that their thrust...
When the U.S. sneezes, according to an old economic adage, the world catches pneumonia. But that was in the days when the U.S. economy was operating on such a narrow margin that even a slight downward dip would dry up imports and thus help depress business everywhere. In 1937-38, for example, industrial production dropped 21% and imports dropped 36%. But in 1954-to the delight of the free world and the consternation of Communists everywhere-the U.S. in a recession still proved to be so strong that its case of sniffles hardly affected world trade...
...shaken by forebodings of depression. Unemployment was on the increase; industrial wage scales began to dip. Western Canada's wheat crop was the poorest in 17 years; retail business fell off. The gross national product, the handiest yardstick for measuring economic progress, appeared to be headed sharply downward...
...season is a small board with blinking lights, set close to the playing area at each end of the court, in plain view of the players, officials, spectators and TV cameras. When a team gets possession of the ball, the board flashes the number 24. Then the numbers dwindle downward, changing every second. This warns the team in possession that it must try for a basket before 24 seconds have elapsed. Otherwise, it loses the ball to the opposing team...