Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladislav Rieger, a member of the Communist "action committee" which had taken over the Czech universities, con tinued the battle for the "new humanism." When he finished, Germany's Walter Brugger remarked: "I see no difference between the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Naziism." A hurt, weary look...
Child Prodigy. In Danbury, Conn., firemen answered a false alarm, nabbed a four-year-old boy, who promptly punched one of them in the eye, brought out the rest of the department with another alarm, and escaped in the confusion.
Bolted motionless on a test stand, the little monster is not impressive. It has no coolly symmetrical propeller, no phalanx of cylinderheads, none of the hard geometrical grace of the conventional aircraft engine. Yet the unprepossessing turbojet engine has thrown the air designers into ecstatic confusion: nobody yet knows how...
Confusion Confounded. The new increase will be piled atop the boosts made last week because of the new f.o.b. system of selling steel. Some of last week's increases: about $5 a ton in Philadelphia, $4-plus in Cleveland, up to $8 in St. Louis. On top of these...
By the time the confusion over basing points is cleared up*-and the new raises added-some steel users expect to be paying as much as $80 a ton for finished steel, up to 30% more than last month. A sprinkling of new wage increases also sent up the prices...