Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make up the official cost-of-living index, the Mollet government has succeeded in holding the index itself relatively steady while most other prices are shooting up. Should the index jump two more points (to 149.1), minimum wages for 20 million workers would automatically increase 5%, setting another inflationary spiral. Said one French economist last week: "The sea is lapping at the dike...
...Sillman seems to be restricting these shindigs to presidential-election years-is agreeably sassy and glossily intimate. If there is a serious weakness, it is much the weakness of New Faces of '52: the product isn't really up to the packaging. Peter Larkin, largely with airy spiral staircases and rows of slatted doors, has created gay all-purpose backgrounds, and Thomas Becher has brought to the costuming just the right lunacy or lure. The 19 new faces are often expressive as well as likable, the show moves pleasantly along, the turns vary considerably in style...
...confine the gases in a "magnetic bottle." Teller explained that the gases would be completely ionized by the heat. All the particles in them would have electric charges, and would be strongly influenced by a magnetic field. If the field could be made strong enough, the particles would spiral tightly in it, keeping away from vulnerable walls of the material container...
...waves were first observed at Harvard five years ago by Drs. Harold I. Ewen and Edward M. Purcell, and they have proved wonderfully useful in showing up features of the universe invisible to telescopes using light. The hydrogen clouds are everywhere, streaming along the spiral arms of the galaxy, clustered thickly in the Milky Way. An average cloud may be 25 light years (150 trillion miles) in diameter and weigh 100 times as much...
What Latin America really needs from foreign trade is enough return to buy the capital goods required to send its Johnny-come-lately industries into an upward spiral, lifting the people's standard of living. This "capacity to import" is set largely by the volume of exports of farm products and minerals and the price they bring. Last year Latin Americans turned out plenty of these products, e.g., agricultural output (sugar, bananas, meat, coffee, cacao, wool) was bigger than in 1954, both total and per capita. But the prices of the exports fell so sharply (notably in coffee...