Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of corporate appropriations by the National Industrial Conference Board points to "a sustained rise" in outlays. The board's Chief Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that the upswing will be "well timed" for the long-term recovery, show its greatest momentum in the second half...
Looking at it from the other end. a spaceship that starts its voyage on the surface of a planet has a hard time climbing out of its gravitational pit. Once it has reached untroubled space, it can coast for millions of miles on its unopposed momentum...
...success. Still shocked at year's beginning by Sputnik, the U.S. strengthened its steady recognition that crisis is the cold-war staple that must be lived with and lived up to. The 1958 record looked even better because of Communism's failure to keep up its Sputnik momentum. And while the U.S. failed to define the grand plan-despite the stabs made by President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson, et al.-this failure was mitigated by the fact that, as the year closed, leaders of both parties were finally convinced that...
...recession, Canada's own underdevelopment was one of its biggest assets. Even giant projects get lost in the huge U.S. economy. In Canada's relatively small economy, the sheer momentum of big basic projects (TransCanada gas pipeline, St. Lawrence Seaway) kept payrolls and profits at near-record levels. Unlike the U.S. Government, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Tory government found it feasible to finance antirecession measures. Tax cuts and increased social-welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts...
...Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later...