Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decrease in Economics concentrators from 95 to 64 does not indicate an abnormal downward trend, but rather a tendency to return to normal, since the Class of 1959 also had 64 Economics concentrators...
Subsequent information from the Mitra, a Dutch freighter cruising south of the Virgin Islands, indicated that a flaming ball had been seen plunging downward "trailing smoke and sparks...
...hand, the nation can choose the way of "economic isolationism" and "cower behind new trade walls of our own building," abandoning the rest of the world to "those less blind to the events and tides now surging in the affairs of men." Or it can refuse to take the downward path and push "forward strongly along the clear road to greater . . . security and opportunity in a friendlier world for this and succeeding generations...
...days later the Labor Department backed up the President's hope that the economy has just about stopped slipping. New claims for unemployment compensation, the department reported, edged downward for the second week in a row, reaching a 1958 low of 404,500 in the third week of March. Another hopeful sign was an upturn in machine-tool orders, considered an important economic indicator. And one major segment of the economy was enjoying a springtime bloom of prosperity: the Agriculture Department announced that farm prices rose 4% from February to March, with livestock, fruit, potatoes and eggs leading...
Aside from overproduction, the industry has also compounded its problem by continued overpricing. The general advance in oil prices that accompanied Suez has still not been adjusted downward to normal markets. Though refiners have cut some petroleum products (e.g., gasoline, kerosene), they are in no position to cut prices enough to spur consumption so long as basic crude prices remain high. The price of domestic crude in the U.S., for example, has jumped from $2.84 per bbl. in 1956 to $3.16 today, and producers make no bones about the fact that they prefer to cut production rather than drop prices...