Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
Scholarship students will be especially hurt by the inflationary spiral economists anticipate, John U. Monro '34, Director of Financial Aid, said last night...
...general price level, is almost always inflationary. Wage increases put inevitable pressure on the price level, which eventually yields. To grant wage increases because of a rise in farm prices is simply giving into inflation, for more prices rises must soon follow. It is just this wage-price spiral that Mr. Wilson is trying to prevent...
Added Tom Dewey: "The mood of the world has changed in the last two months. You can almost feel it in the air. We hit bottom last fall, but we have been on the rise ever since . . . This is no time for any action by us to reverse the spiral of confidence and plunge the world again into an atmosphere of despair...
Margaret Rutherford is thoroughly convincing as the bulldozing, bustling headmistress, who labels the situation "an ascending spiral of iniquity." Alastair Sim is equally good as the distracted headmaster faced with invasion, whose favorite position is a tragic out-the-window gaze...