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Derived from pine-tree sap, the powder is a cheap (less than $5,000 per mile of 40-ft. road), quick road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work...
Even if the Germans were not knocked out, the air drive would soften Germany, make beachhead losses lighter when the invasion finally came...
...months ago a U.S. force of carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, tranports had pounced on the Gilberts, some 500 miles to the south. Then, 2,500 tons of steel had been poured on to the pillboxes and revetments to soften beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the defenses were still very hard: Jap resistance to the landings was ferocious, the cost in U.S. lives high. The Marshalls, held by the Japs for a quarter of a century, for years jealously guarded from alien visitors, were an unknown quantity. Involved this week was probably the greatest...
...Avila Camacho let it be known that they would get no help from Mexico), they took belated notice. In a broad-brimmed sombrero Governor Coke Stevenson made a tour of Mexico, spreading buttery words, sparring with Mexican newsmen. On his return he organized the Texas Good Neighbor Commission to soften Texas prejudice...
Significantly for U.S. industry, the women will be hit hardest by the change, in Cumberland they will find no cushion to soften the jolt. Few have worked long enough to be eligible for unemployment compensation. In ordnance work, women inspect, gauge, operate automatic machines. But tiremaking is a hard, dirty, heavy job. A mere 300 may eventually get back their jobs with The Kelly. The remainder, some of whom worked just long enough to buy fur coats on the installment plan, must move away to find jobs, stay at home, join the WACS...