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...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
With all that, Clay can take credit for having doublehanded led boxing out of its racket-infested ignominy. In 1950, total gate receipts in the U.S. had dropped to a nadir of $4,000,000. Thanks to the class that Clay has brought back to the game, the take in 1966 was nearly $11 million...
...lack of money, scores of communities put off plans for needed schools, parks and highways. Thousands of prospective home buyers were compelled to postpone their dreams to another year; the cost of mortgage loans climbed to 6½% or more, and construction of housing plunged 19% to a postwar nadir. Tens of thousands of investors shifted their money out of stocks and into higher-yielding bonds, Government securities and savings accounts; the stock market skidded 25% from February to October and, despite a recent rally, is still 20% below its early-year high...
...after another reported in recent weeks, the U.S. was gaining steadily on the battlefront. The Harris poll showed that the stepped-up bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong were endorsed by 5 out of every 6 Americans. And ratings of the President's own popularity, after hitting a nadir of 46% in May, had curved robustly upward (to 55% ). So why was Lyndon Johnson so out of sorts...
...Alabama, or a woman awaiting deportation to Siberia in Stalinist Russia, but why should we go outside our own country?" Kadar's genius, however, consists in focusing upon Britko, the best of the typical villagers. When Britko finally breaks down, the social order of the village has reached its nadir...