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...about 4%, to a peak 123 (1947-49 = 100). "It's as if we all sat down together-which we didn't-and decided to raise prices," says one appliance-company executive. "It's that old, old, devil inflation. Starting with the steel price rise, a spiral has started throughout industry. We've already soaked up two or three cost increases. We just had to pass this...
...ground, or that the ballooning U.S. population will eventually absorb all the goods-and more-that industry can produce. Yet there is a very real concern that U.S. business, its eyes firmly fixed on the long term, will not see or accept the short-run dangers of an inflationary spiral that could seriously cripple the economy...
...Spiral Nail. Jones & Laughlin has brought out a nail with spiral threads, which has 50% to 200% greater holding power and weighs less than smooth nails. When the "Ardox" nail is driven, it does not cut wood fibers, but pushes them aside, reduces wood splitting and physical labor. Fewer kegs of Ardox nails are needed for building projects, thus cutting costs...
...easy spiral for somebody to catch. It hits the ground on its side, or an end, with a forward roll. If anybody's there, it's hard to pick up. If nobody's there, it keeps going," explains Indian Coach, Bob Blackman...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...