Word: outlasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storied, each house has four rooms, built-in cupboards, a fireplace, walls well insulated against heat, cold and sound, stronger roofs and floor supports than conventional houses. Much more luxurious than the house many a citizen of Great Britain lived in before the war, they are carefully designed to outlast the average ten-year life of the usual temporary house. Their cost: $3,800 apiece...
...Washington the fourth Lend-Lease agreement with Russia was in process of fulfillment. Nearly all goods shipped to date were of the immediately expendable type (planes, trucks, food). But the emphasis was shifting. Unofficial reports said present negotiations stressed goods that may outlast the war (railroad equipment, machinery, etc.). These goods would not be "lent," they would be sold on terms like those of the new French Lend-Lease agreement (30 years to pay with interest...
Objective, Burma! (Warners) is a practically book-length (2 hr. 22 min.) tribute to the U.S. paratroops. At the rate Errol Flynn & Co. knock off the Japanese, it may make you wonder why there is any good reason for the war to outlast next weekend. On the other hand, you may be too excited to bother with such thoughts...
...years, recently perfected it with the help of the Andy Brothers Tire Shop in Washington. The abrasive material (a sawdust mixture) is mixed with recapping camelback (uncured rubber compound) under pressure, then applied to a tire by the usual molding process. The Gapen brothers claim that their tires will outlast ordinary ones. They have driven some of their recaps 9,500 miles...
Although silicone rubber at present has not enough tensile strength for tires, engineers are confident that eventually they will correct this shortcoming, develop silicone tires that will outlast...