Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prestige, in the Coolidge era, discussed the wage-price problem with Coolidgesque balance. Asked to comment on a strike of cooks, waiters and bus boys at the West End's swankiest hotels, the Duke said: "If they had been better paid they would not be striking. However, the spiral of pay and costs cannot continue indefinitely...
keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...
...labor to go easy on price and wage increases. With the political heat turned on for junking Government controls, it was also a plea for retention of controls. Some of John Steelman's facts were open to dispute. He predicted that rising prices would create a wage-price spiral. Commented the New York Times: "[That] implies that it has been price rises that have been forcing wage rises. In the last year the causation has been the other way around. . . . The Administration . . . encouraged and sometimes compelled wage increases that forced corresponding price increases...
...Spiral v. Corkscrew. Keeping editors from one Tomorrow to the next had been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished...
...newsmen, Lockheed president Bob Gross proudly displayed the 92-ton Constitution, biggest plane ever built for the U.S. Navy. The Constitution will be slightly slower (300 miles an hour) than its sister ship, the Constellation. But it will carry 180 passengers on two spacious decks connected by spiral stairways, will have a 6,000-mile range (v. a maximum of 67 passengers and 3,000 miles for the Constellation...