Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Similar retaliation would meet any hostile move against U.S. ships convoying Nationalist men and supplies through the Red picket line around Quemoy. The news behind this promise: orders had already gone out to the Seventh Fleet to break the blockade by escorting Nationalist supply ships to within three miles of Quemoy-and perhaps all the way to the beach if Chiang's gunboats failed to beat off Red raiders...
...while De Bisschop settled down to the quiet life as French consul in Honolulu. But Thor Heyerdahl's exploit in sailing Kon-Tiki from Peru to Tahiti set him off again. Determined to reverse Heyerdahl's course, De Bisschop pushed off from Tahiti on a similar raft, traveled 5,000 miles, only to have the raft break up under him in a tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left...
...England to find volunteer couples willing to risk pregnancy with only the tablets for insurance. Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope, he tried the Times, which unexpectedly accepted the ad and netted...
...Copper output was boosted 15% by Phelps Dodge Corp., the No. 2 domestic producer, following a similar rise by the No. 1 producer, Kennecott...
...Aluminum production was increased by Reynolds Metals from July's 73% to 83½% following a similar recent rise by Kaiser Aluminum...