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...Passage to India was first published in 1924. Beautiful, ironic, crystal-clear, intense - "one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time" - at once "a political document of the first importance," "a masterpiece of subtle characterization" with "a story that moved like a house on fire," A Passage to India evoked tremendous critical enthusiasm. In 20 years it sold almost 100,000 copies in the U.S., yet it never became an integral part of ordinary U.S. cultural life or political thought...
...crystal-clear," the U.S. Admiral said, "that we will win the war, but it is not yet clear just when it will end. I am realistic enough to believe it will be over long before the gloomy prediction...
...Fulbright resolution makes no hasty commitments which the nation might later regret. Yet it is a crystal-clear statement of American intentions to help make a good peace. As a foreign policy credo, it is probably as specific as could be made when the structure of the postwar world is so uncertain...
...military convoy moving at night . . . is something that nobody who has been in one can ever forget. . . . The moon was just coming out. The sky was crystal-clear, and the night was bitter cold. . . . We had to cross over a mountain range. There were steep grades and switchback turns, and some of the trucks had to back and fill to make the sharper turns. . . . We had long waits. . . . We would shut off our motors and then the night would be deathly silent except for a subdued undertone of grinding motors far ahead...
When butadiene is polymerized with styrene the result is Buna-S, developed in Germany but since improved by Standard Oil (of N.J.). Styrene itself has no relation whatever to natural rubber. It is made from benzene, principally by the Dow and Monsanto companies, and gives an excellent crystal-clear plastic when polymerized by itself. Combined with butadiene in Buna-S, the product is high in tensile strength and resistant to abrasion. In some tests it has proved distinctly superior to natural rubber in wearing qualities. (Some Buna-S truck tires have lasted over 50,000 miles.) The Baruch plan calls...