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...Churchill's car rolled up to the White House,President Eisenhower jogged down the five steps and said, "Hello, Winston." Sir Winston, with his eyes fixed downward on each of the marble stairs, began the ascent to the front door. When an outstretched hand came between the steps and his eyes, he looked up long enough to identify its owner as Mamie Eisenhower, and clasped it cordially. Photographs recorded what seemed...
...investment firms and "survived the shock that stocks go down as well as up--and down more quickly than up." Others, like James R. Carter, were "not emotionally suited to this type of endeavor (stock broker). My emotions rode with the tickers and inasmuch as it rode mostly steadily downward, I got out, just in time, in the summer...
...burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above the plane than from below it. This decreases air pressure on the top, causing the saucer to rise...
Speaking on the TV program Youth Wants to Know, Hauge said: "The downward settling process has pretty well been slowed down to a stop. We can look ahead to going forward again." Hauge predicted "a rising phase" of business activity during the next twelve months...
...electric charge, and it therefore reacts very slightly with matter, sailing through solid metal or rock almost as if they were empty space. About 5% of the energy of a nuclear reactor (so says the theory) goes off in the form of neutrinos, and most of those that shoot downward pass right through the earth...