Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheel is spiral rather than planar in shape. Its more well-known name is that of the Milky Way. The measurements of its various dimensions are highly accurate. Those of the sphere are far less certain since it is difficult to calculate the precise outer limit of the sphere. This is due to the thinning out of the stars along its outer fringes...
...suit. WLB might order a smaller increase, but some upping of the pay scale seemed certain. And when the miners' pay goes up, mine operators will ask OPA for a coal price increase ; railroads in turn will ask the ICC for a freight rate increase, and the inflationary spiral will be in full motion...
...only touchdown of the afternoon came on Tufts' fourth play, when Fortin, their left-handed passer, eluded half the Harvard line, spun out of one man's hands, and tossed a 45-yard spiral over the safety-man's head to a receiver standing in the end zone...
...dollars. The bill provides for approximately $6,800,000,000, not even half what the fiscal experts, who must finance the war, demanded. Left untouched by taxation or what the public normally could spend on consumers goods are 18 billion dollars threatening to whirl the country into an inflationary spiral. It was part of this amount that the treasury hoped to get, or discourage from exchange with its ill-fated spendings-tax. And lastly, the largest revenue groups, the upper two-thirds income brackets, have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married man earning only$12 a week...
...goods.) Corporate profits must be cut. "Unless we step in and put a stop to further increases those ceilings will crack and our battle for stability will be lost. ... It means that the cost of living will begin to skyrocket, that demands will outrace incomes in a dizzy upward spiral that can only end-and will end-in economic chaos...