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...become a military and atomic-energy center, and 2) had some widespread modern agricultural development in the southeastern part of the state, a swarm of immigrants from other states has blurred the political picture. Their voting habits are unassayed. One thing they are almost certain to do: lessen New Mexico's notorious apathy toward national politics...
...program from a strictly partisan angle. Like Harry Truman with the 80th Congress, Williams attacks his Republican legislature for failure to carry out the Williams program without trying to find a statesmanlike middle ground for action. For example, Michigan is rolling up an ever-increasing deficit. Soapy wants to lessen it by a corporate income tax (a C.I.O. project which would sock General Motors alone some $27 million a year). Soapy has vetoed major Republican efforts to work out substitute measures, which, say the Republicans, could have cleaned up the deficit...
...allowed to retain control of her public domain, which, Texans say, stretches 10½ miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Other coastal states claim the offshore oil under general provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that Texas tidelands as yet have produced practically no oil did not lessen Texans' fury against President Truman this year, when he vetoed a bill which would have handed over tideland oil rights to the coastal states. With the Texans it's not the money, it's the principle of the thing...
...sleek as a shark to help her outrun submarines. Fore & aft, her plates, instead of being riveted together in overlaps, like the Queens', are welded end to end, making the hull lighter, smoother and faster. Much of her superstructure is made of aluminum to cut down weight and lessen the ship's roll. In her compact white engine rooms (two separate rooms to lessen the danger from torpedoes in time of war), oil-fired boilers supply high-pressure steam to power the turbines that drive four giant propellers. These generate enough power for a city the size...
...National Scholarship plan, the CRIMSON decided that it would be appropriate to cease talking about the Age of Lowell and begin to realize that the Age of Conant had arrived. Even abolition of the beer plan in the next year. I' was costing too much did not serve to lessen the Conant administration's stature...