Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...
Black-browed Joseph Stalin may have meditated that it was the Franco-Russian War that started Napoleon on his downward spiral, beginning with the retreat from Moscow. To Joseph Stalin the Ribbentrop message sounded like the prelude to a typical Hitlerian workup: complaints, proposals, demands, threats, action. Communist Joseph Stalin is mortally afraid of National Socialist Adolf Hitler, but he knows one truth that Europe's other statesmen learned too late: that Hitler respects strength alone. He set out to give a demonstration...
Today Disston makes over 5,000,000 saws and blades a year, does some 75% of the U. S. handsaw business. Its saws & blades vary from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate...
Physicist Lawrence invented the cyclotron, a type of atom-smasher which accelerates atomic bullets in spiral paths as a baseball pitcher winds up for his throw...
...main reason that prices leaped ahead of wages in Britain was that wage earners, flush with fat wartime pay envelopes, spent so lavishly amid a shortage of goods that they forced up prices to their own disadvantage. If they had "deferred spending," says the Professor, the "spiral of inflation" and of post-war deflation would not have been so violent...