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...Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues saw red. (Isolationist Senator Tobey, picking up a story written by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Thomas L. Stokes, suggested that Senator Pepper had used his office to get part of a defense contract for a Florida asphalt company, thereby precipitating such a rancorous side battle that the Senate finally expunged the debate from the record...
...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...
...office of the U. S. Army's Chief of Staff, the confusion of war, the hurly-burly of U. S. rearmament seemed far away. Beyond the Venetian blinds the rain fell, streaking the stuccoed walls of the War Department's shoddy Munitions Building, glazing the black asphalt of Washington's Constitution Avenue. Seated before old Phil Sheridan's ornately carved desk, spare, grey General George Catlett Marshall, in summer mufti, talked to 25 newsmen at his weekly press conference...
...heroine, Lady Chatterly, discovered in the Midlands: "This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. . . . There was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious." But if people are strong, factories are still vulnerable to high explosive...
...Harroun, in a streamlined Marmon, startled the auto-racing world by winning the first 500-mile Indianapolis auto race at an average speed of 74 m.p.h. More startling still was the fact that he drove around the two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval without a mechanic at his side-relying on a mirror to inform him of what his opponents were doing behind his back. Since that day, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the proving ground for many another automotive innovation: balloon tires, four-wheel brakes, Ethyl gasoline, straight-eight motors. But to auto-racing fans...