Word: upwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Pravda, the satellite's launching rocket took off directly upward, and curved away from the vertical soon after firing. It had several stages, but Pravda, giving few details, said merely that when the carrier reached several hundred kilometers altitude and was moving parallel to the earth's surface at 8,000 meters per sec. (about 18,000 m.p.h.), the satellite proper was detached from its protective nose-cone and the burned-out rocket. The three objects separated slowly, following slightly different orbits...
...clamorous Battle of the Budget all about? Were Capitol Hill's cuts mere political flimflam? Well, not exactly, said Anderson-Brundage. Congress and the Administration, between them, did in fact cut $2 billion out of the original budget. But the trimmings were more than offset by "a few upward revisions" partly due to inflation, partly due to ballooning programs that only Congress can change. Items: ¶ Bumper crops on the farms bumped up the cost of price supports by $739 million (total outlay for agriculture programs in the revised budget: $5 billion, or more than the combined spending...
...Dahanayake was not to be stopped. "I have not had assistance from a single embassy here," he declared, "and I do not propose to go to them with a begging bowl." Gluck diplomatically refrained from reminding Dahanayake that Ceylon's educational system has in fact received upward of $1,000,000 from the U.S. Government during the past 18 months...
...crisis, the free world's major nations were caught up last week in a problem that nags more lives than race segregation or conflict between states' rights and federal powers. The problem: inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index had edged upward for the twelfth month in a row, with an August rise of .2 lifting the index to a record high of 121.0 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices, factory workers' average real wages actually shrank...
...Wilson is wrestling with a tough and bristly problem: keeping defense spending from skittering far ahead of the Administration's $38 billion estimate for the current fiscal year. Engine Charlie found at the year's opening (July 1) that, with the increasing complexity of weapons pushing costs upward, money was pouring out at the rate of $40 billion a year. He ordered cuts of 100,000 in military manpower and 53,000 in Defense Department civilian employment. Last week Engine Charlie tightened the budgetary bolts again. With President Eisenhower's O.K., he ordered an additional...