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...Blough, Columbia University: Assuming that heavy unemployment does not initiate a downward spiral, I would expect business activity to start to rise soon. But I do not see signs of the strong demand needed to stimulate vigorous growth...
Outlining the hypothetical process by which man migrated downward toward a more natural and less harsh environment, Homer termed the threat of nuclear war "an extrinsic, fortuitous factor." With military leaders planning attacks on all sides, he observed, survival shelters had to be constructed in the name of defense. As these "civil defense" programs grew and grew, the shelters assumed ever-increasing importance...
...steel outriggers, which stabilized an unmanned Lorain crane poised near the edge of the 172-ft. hole. The huge crane rolled through a wooden railing, toppled over backwards. Then, while crews watched helplessly, the boom toppled and the crane slid over the silo's lip. It hurtled downward, brushed workmen and scaffolding off the sides of the hole, crashed in flames at the bottom, killing a total of six and injuring...
...lost its momentum, entered the pulmonary vein carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's upper left chamber. Car ried along with the blood, the slug went through the mitral valve into the left ventricle and up through the aortic valve. It turned downward at the aorta's arch in the upper chest, and traveled through the femoral artery until this became too nar row. Then the bullet stopped behind the left knee. Surgeons had no difficulty removing it. Military surgeons who treated hundreds of wartime wounded said that the case of Bruce's unguided...
...More Decline? The Commerce Department reported that personal income, which both economists and the economic report counted on for any economic lift, turned downward in November and December for the first time in nearly two years (except in major strike periods). Revised figures showed that personal income in November, which the department had previously reported as steady, actually declined about $700 million to an annual rate of $409 billion. The drop continued in December to $406.7 billion, running up a new decline in two months of $3 billion in the nation's potential purchasing power...