Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly not been hurt at home by Labor's effective jabs at British colonial failures in Africa. But above all, Macmillan owes his popularity to Britain's current prosperity. Two years ago Macmillan gambled on a politically unpopular anti-inflation budget and an unprecedented increase in the bank rate to 7%. This year these austere fiscal policies of the Conservatives have paid off-in more ways than...
...discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that 52 employees on its Far East run, all but two of them stewards and stewardesses, had been dismissed, with more firings to come...
From the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
...experiment, the deuterium plasma is held in a quartz tube about a foot long. At each end the magnetic field is given added strength to form a magnetic "mirror," which reflects back the charged particles as they try to escape, thus sealing the gas in a magnetic bottle. A bank of 99 condensers, kept in the basement since condensers sometimes blow up, sends a jolt of 4,000,000 amperes thundering through the coil, heating the gas up to around 20 million degrees. Dr. Kolb reported that his machine had confined plasma and kept it stable at this temperature...
...lighting a piece of paper with a match. First the paper turns brown, then it smokes, then it bursts into flame. "We think we have reached the stage where the deuterium is beginning to show a little brown." What Kolb and the Naval Research Laboratory need now is a bank of condensers ten times as powerful, i.e., a bigger match...