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...drawback is that the plan comes late. Even optimistic General Browning fears that it may prove a better cushion for industry against the shock of the end of the Japanese rather than the German...
Kesselring's Plight. Blocking of Via Casilina would mean that the Germans could retire only on the road north from Arce through Sora, and on the secondary road north from Frosinone. But both routes had a big drawback: they did not lead straight to Rome...
...ever duplicated shellac's complicated chemical structure. But Chem ist C. G. Harford, of the Arthur D. Little laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., found that a resin named zein, derived from corn, behaved very much like shellac. A drawback, however, was that in solution zein had a tendency to jell. By an un disclosed chemical process, Harford finally succeeded in converting zein into a non-jelling resin. The result, Zinlac, not only has the quick-drying, elastic qualities of shellac, but is also more resistant to water and makes a better coat for metal...
...early weeks of war proved that the traditional emblem had a bad drawback: from certain angles on the wing of a plane diving or turning in the sun, the red heart of the star could be confused with Japan's plane marking-a large red disc (known to U.S. flyers as "the meatball"). Trigger-nervous gunners occasionally fired on planes that turned out to be American. So the red circle was painted out, leaving a plain white star...
Distinctive in the Victor album are "Stompy Jones" and "Warm Valley." The only real drawback is that they switched sides in re-issuing, so that on back of a number you don't have is one you probably...