Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each other by colour or in some other way, whether people voted in the same booths for both candidates, these and similar "details" are not known. Yet without such details it is impossible to say whether the elections were free...
...Medieval Academy of America. The work of Professor W. J. Luyten in astronomy is also recognized. He is selected to continue the taking of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope of the Harvard University Observatory at Mazelspoort, South Africa. His plates will be compared with similar ones taken about 1900 to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities, and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...year Phelps Dodge has added to its mining and smelting business, the refining of its own products as well as a comprehensive sales organization, and is reaching out to acquire an interest in the copper fabricating industries. In short, it is setting out to integrate a great vertical combination similar to that of Anaconda...
...view. While the battle of Fords and Chevrolets begins again at home, Ford has flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants are the most important overseas units; and Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is the greatest of the associated companies...
...many years ago in U. S. industry that business was thought of largely in terms of great basic commodities. Iron, steel, leather, lumber, copper, flour-these and similar staples constituted almost the entire structure of U. S. industry. That they still remain the backbone, the foundation, of industry is undeniable. Yet many of today's most successful industrial enterprises, remarkable both in their size and in their earnings, belong to the nonessential classifications...