Word: spirals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ottawa, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported that November's cost-of-living index was down one-tenth of a point to 191.1-the first drop since December 1949. Ottawa economists hoped that the inflationary spiral had been arrested, thus vindicating their program of strong credit controls and their dogged rejection of Tory and CCF demands for price ceilings...
...After the pearly, spiral-shelled mollusk, the "chambered nautilus" of which Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote...
...Whirl. Camden's changes have only begun. By mid-1952, Du Pont will complete an additional $25 million expansion of its Orion plant (one of 20 Du Pont plants in nine Southern states), will hire about 1,900 more workers, and start Camden's spiral whirling again by paying out an additional $7,300,000 a year in wages...
Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
This year officials again expect a deficit since the athletics problems still isn't solved. Endowments, they explain, are often nullified by the inflation spiral...