Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the prosperity levels of pre-Korea." Staff Chief Grover Ensley of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report has still another view of what is happening. Says he: "We are getting into an adjustment which, if not of the recessionary type, is of the downward type...
...become very unhappy, and because there is the possibility that Colgate may someday play Harvard again, he practiced extra points last Saturday. That Dartmouth happened to be the Colgate opponent didn't help matters much. Lahar used four different men, and got the same result four times--a downward cross of the official's arms. But Colgate won anyway...
...Harman and another pilot were flying over the plant area when, at the low level of 200 feet, the engine stopped dead. Obedient to the untested theory they had been taught, and against all their natural instincts, the two tilted the copter downward and dived it at full speed straight for the ground. It worked: 20 feet from the ground the rotor blades, spun by the dive, acquired enough lift to break the fall. The craft smashed up, but Harman and his friend walked away, "just as the fire engines and ambulances came roaring...
...same optimism was reflected in a survey by Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report: "Although there are forces within the economy which may be moving downward, none of them appear either formidable or powerfully controlling." Even the. predicted cuts in Government spending were turning out to be smaller than anticipated and the growing concern over Russia's possession of the superbomb seemed to guarantee no further cutbacks in the defense budget. With uncertainty over the arms program out of the way-and an easing of credit already taking place-it looked as if the immediate prospect...
...Peering downward, LaPointe noted a "funny mountain which looked rusty and nearly dark blue." Awatter, watching the instruments, gave an exclamation. The magnetic compass had swung 90 degrees as the plane neared the mountain. "The needle is crazy," said Awatter. LaPointe took the controls and circled the mountain, but the compass steadied down. Awatter and LaPointe agreed not to mention the incident to anyone else...