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...Secretary Hull maintains, the thesis behind our diplomacy was of dual nature. One element of American influence was to build up resistance to aggression, while another was to cement the based for a sort of durable peace. Unwittingly, the complete record only outlines the neutralization of one effort by the other, with American moral, physical and political unpreparedness as the result. For while Hull and the New Deal coterie of interventionists were stiffening opposition to aggression, either by promise or threat, Congress was busy hamstringing real American intervention by Neutrality Acts and refusals of any sort of joint action. Disguised...
...dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...
There he could make a stand behind the Mareth Line, the "Little Maginot" of pillboxes and cement forts strung along the hills in southern Tunisia from the Gulf of Gabès 20 miles inland. There were already reports of Axis troops from Tripolitania hastening into Tunisia. There was even a report (from Berlin) that Rommel himself had left Tripolitania to go "elsewhere on another job." The report obviously was put out to save the fox's face, now that he had lost his tail. But it might be true. Rommel might have gone to Tunisia...
...Longa. Near Victorville, Calif., a cement truck demolished a sedan, left intact in the wreckage a pamphlet: Accidents Don't Happen...
...rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test. Sometimes, in order to seal the smaller cracks, it is necessary to inject a pint to two quarts of liquid cement. Once the tire is made airtight it requires only the usual care...