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...quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed to hang there, nose down, immobile in the sky. Then it fell away in a normal tailspin which the pilot could correct after only half a turn...
...approval of the House's $56 billion appropriation for the armed forces in fiscal 1952. But when the Senators also voted to shove another $5 billion into the hands of Defense Secretary Marshall for what was described only as "additional air power," they threw the capital into a tailspin of speculation...
...enrollment tailspin could also close some House or Yard dorms, he explained--the College still doesn't know which. During the last war, most of the civilian College students lived in the Yard...
...asked him if he would come up and see me. I said to him that the strike was getting to be very destructive and that it was going to put our economy into a tailspin.* Furthermore, I said, if this strike isn't settled soon, the Administration is going to move in with controls and that will be bad for everybody...
...afternoon of April 30, 1945, most of the Russian delegation, sore over the admission of Argentina, left the meeting. Much of the press went into a tailspin. It was a bad day, but not nearly so bad as the headlines suggested. As the delegates left the hall, TIME'S Anatole Visson got through the crush to one of the calmest men in San Francisco. "What do you think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story...