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...have been financed by loans and vast transfusions from his industrial empire. But he is confident that profits will come, is gradually paring down the traditionally high cost of Hawaiian construction by buying in large quantities, adopting efficiency techniques, using such local materials as coral (for cement) and volcanic cinder (for building blocks...
...defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason to suspect our intentions, compel them to react with countermeasures, and result finally in widening the lift between our two worlds. There is an important difference between increased retaliatory power on the one hand, and the formidableness of cement and cinder-block digging-in on the other, with its implication of permanent and determined hostility...
Lowell's Bellboys, who looked strong in a scrimmage with Quincy last week, should finish fourth, followed closely by Winthrop. Quincy's cinder-block busters, located at the nadir in last year's standings, have some diagrammed plays this year and look greatly improved--enough to rise to sixth place. After that it will be Leverett, Adams, and Dudley, in that order...
...township's youngsters are not without promise. Not long ago one of them turned up with an IQ of 140. But Carver School's Principal Adelaide Long has her troubles. A cinder-block monstrosity, the school bears knife scars from floors to ceilings. Insurance companies have given up on the windows: last year the kids broke $3,000 worth, and this year Principal Long is converting to plywood...
Guns & Water. From the Grand Canyon in the north, where the Colorado River cuts the most spectacular incision anywhere in earth's surface, the Arizona landscape sweeps eastward to the gaudy Painted Desert, takes in the stone trees of Petrified Forest, the cinder mountains piled up by a geological era of active volcanoes. Southward lie the butte-strewn sands where Apache Chief Geronimo waged the last Indian Wars upon whites, the rich, old copper mines producing one-half of U.S. needs, such legendary towns as Tombstone, where Gunslingers Wyatt Earp & Co. built the legends that feed...