Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other industrial workers would also want their wages evened. Whether it was the end of an era or not, it had all the earmarks of being the real beginning of an inflationary spiral, with wages and prices leaping upwards...
...controls. He declared that "serious shortages of consumer goods will not develop unless they are created artificially." He urged buyers to "refrain from hoarding or avarice," urged producers to practice "restrained pricing," asked labor to avoid "wage demands of a character which might lead to another inflationary spiral...
Supersonic Tips. Even before the jet era, propellers were a headache. When an airplane is in flight, the tips of its propeller blades, describing a spiral through the air, reach supersonic speeds while the airplane itself is still lumbering along far below the speed of sound...
...decade of the big binge. From the false Armistice of 1918 to Black Thursday of 1929, this well-edited paste-up of old newsreels recalls the fevers and foibles of the generation that lived on Florida booms, hip flasks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Charleston, and the out-of-sight spiral of a rocketing stock market. Its faces range from the ludicrous (Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet) to the complacent (Jimmy Walker in a ticker-tape parade) to the evil (the pudgy, bland-eyed look of a paretic Al Capone...