Word: cements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...protect her African keystone, France strongly fortified the hills around Bizerte harbor. But the Allied forces are approaching Bizerte, fortified for a sea attack, by a backdoor land route. To face Italian aggression from Libya, France built the Mareth ("Little Maginot") Line of pillboxes and sunken cement forts in the hills at the eastern border. In hostile hands these fortifications would not be an impossible obstacle to the Allies. The Germans and Italians dismantled many of the fortifications after the French armistice in 1940; and the guns on the Mareth Line are set to point east...
...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...