Word: spiraled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...employees went, to work at the giant H-bomb plant. Aiken, which has a population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving 100 large industries into the region...
...last week's Nature magazine, R. Hanbury Brown and C. Hazard of Britain's University of Manchester announced that they had detected radio stars in M. 31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda...
...spiral" theory of civilizations, famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee holds that the pressure of outside challenge produces a civilization's strongest response. He also sees psychic and spiritual factors as more potent in history than material ones. Last week, in a Founder's Day address at California's Pomona College, Toynbee brought both tenets to bear on the main issue of his own time...
...remedy the Brown president suggested, "The cure is not subsidy but economic reform in our government that will stop the inflationary spiral before it gets out of hand." Wriston also asked the federal government to establish a definite policy on the student draft...
...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...