Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil's 1954-5 5 crop. A year ago, a biting frost hit Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels. But instead of a 15% or 20% price rise as might be expected in the wake...
...five big U.S. roasters (General Foods, A. & P., Hills Brothers, Standard Brands, and J. A. Folger & Co.) started buying coffee to guard against future shortages and still higher prices. Result: prices soared again. The increases were rapidly passed on to U.S. housewives, and only when they rebelled did the spiral start downward...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (TIME, Aug. 10). Sitting in his favorite suite in his favorite hotel, where he has been coming for 35 years, Wright busily dispatched lieutenants to make arrangements for a new Manhattan office he is setting up, admired an Oriental painting of marmosets he had just bought, talked to contractors about bids on the museum, and kept up a steady, easy flow of talk...
When a similar picture is taken 50 years hence, as is planned, comparison of the two pictures will give a good idea of how the galaxy's stars are arranged in streaming spiral arms, and how the whole galaxy is spinning like a pinwheel in space...
...familiar pattern of stars and clouds with near-empty space between them. Instead, it seems to be a "continuous medium" in a state of violent turbulence, with streams of hydrogen twisting and eddying at enormous speed. At one point, the astronomers detected radio evidence of a small spiral arm uncoiling from the dense heart of the nucleus...