Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the Japanese Diet. He says angrily: "There are many eta people who have risen to top ranks in their professions, including screen stars and flower-arranging masters, but they dare not be frank about their origin because their popularity would immediately drop. But before we blame them, we must blame Japan's society, which permits such discrimination...
...human hands. When it reached 80,000 ft., automatic controls would ready the telescope and point it at the sun. They would take about 8,000 pictures (f/200, 1/1000 sec. exposure). Then, their duty done, they would separate the observatory from the balloon and drop it to earth on a giant parachute...
Furthermore, says Slichter, there are good reasons why wages and prices go up more easily than they go down. "Wages in the American economy do not readily drop in contracting industries" because of union strength. Moreover, Slichter argues, when general business threatens to contract and drop prices, antirecession measures are applied by Government before falling prices lose all the ground gained in the last boom, giving a higher jumping-off point for the next rise...
...slowing to a stop. Sales of fixed-income bond issues are booming. The commodity market, classic escape for capital in inflationary periods, is in the doldrums. Washington officials see a chance that the September consumer price index figures will show no rise over August because of the seasonal drop in used-car and food prices. Eventually they expect that inflation will begin to creep again. To keep it from accelerating to a gallop, both sides agree on the need for wise use of credit and fiscal controls. Says Slichter: "The greatest danger confronting the economy today is that political pressure...
Director Alexander Mackendrick, who also had a hand in writing the script, is a master of nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...