Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bargain Sales. Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government at last set up a committee to study means of reducing unemployment. There were two general solutions: pump-priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) for critically needed housing, and thus re-employ hundreds of thousands of construction workers. The other solution was to let the goods pile up on shelves until prices dropped to the point where customers could buy more. But the trade associations refused to let prices...
...sober fact, is a kind of hydrogen bomb that generates its life-giving energy by "fusing" hydrogen into helium. Man's new bombs will not use exactly the same reactions, but they will use similar ones yielding the same end product. When the first of them explodes, a little bit of the searing sun will have hit the earth...
Busy Bulldozers. So far, thought Surrey, the Ottershaw experiment was working pretty well. Enrollment had jumped to 120, and there were twelve applicants for every vacancy. Last month onetime Rugby Headmaster Percy H. B. Lyon called on Parliament to establish 300 new schools along similar lines. A more practical tribute came from the Labor Government itself. Though recently the government had been obliged to order cutbacks in new construction, including school building, it had given Ottershaw the green light. Bulldozers and construction crews were busy last week on the foundations for a new wing to house 60 more Ottershavians next...
...into how most soldiers managed to survive the psychological strains of modern combat. Writing in a supplement to the Department's Bulletin, Major Raymond Sobel analyzed the crack-ups of 50 seasoned men who had fought battle after battle without a misstep. The aggregation of symptoms was so similar in each case that Psychiatrist Sobel and his colleagues gave it a name-the "Old Sergeant Syndrome...
Meanwhile, the freshman squad enjoyed similar success against the Boston, University yearlings at the Blockhouse, winning 49 to 26. The Yardling took six events is sweeping to their third straight triumph...