Word: soaring
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...make a start in military spacecraft, the Air Force hopes for a 1964 launch of the Dyna-Soar, the manned space glider, which will be the forerunner of more sophisticated vehicles that will be able to maneuver while in orbit...
Across the U.S., even as they conducted their interminable public post mortems on the fallen star, other newspaper editors watched their sales soar-and silently endorsed the sentiments of the man from Hearst. For in the newspaper game, the dog days of August are a time of terrible drought. Circulation and advertising fall with a sickening thud; news simply evaporates under the late summer...
...important of all, the building's metallic majesty, visible across the countryside like the church spires of rural Europe, is in perfect harmony with the spirit of the academy. Its materials and basic forms are largely those of an airplane, and its spires do not merely point, they soar...
...only acting as it had in the past. The Fed was given the power to control margins in 1934 in order to prevent a repetition of 1929, when the crash was intensified by the vast number of speculators operating largely on credit. So when stock prices soar and speculators' borrowing increases, the Reserve Board raises margins as a damper. Traditionally, when credit to securities buyers falls about 10%, the Fed interprets it as a sign that speculative pressure has ended and cuts margins. Currently, credit to securities buyers stands at $5 billion-about 12% below the figure when...
...Nordness went about his work, other dealers began to speculate about just what he was up to. Since Johnson wanted to conceal his name lest prices soar, Nordness had put it out that he was buying...