Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exhausted" was an over-violent word. Still well-oiled is Pennsylvania, though its oil now lies so deep that primary drilling has given way to "water drive"-pumping water to force oil through the wells. Pennsylvania's reserves on January 1, 1939 were 200,000,000 barrels, as compared with more than 9,000,000,000 for Texas...
Meantime the education of Martin Dies proceeded apace. A blustery, headline-hunter when he came out of Orange County, Texas, Chairman Dies is still hunting news space ("The only thing that counts in these investigations is what gets in the papers"). But last week he revealed an understanding that Reds and Nazis do not just grow out of thin air. Said he, projecting an ambitious new line of inquiry. "I want to give the nation a graphic picture of the deplorable conditions that breed Communism and Fascism...
...thrip.* He is a fervent believer in the immoral Machiavellian doctrine of the end justifying the means, however vile the end may be. He has repeatedly lied as to his purposes since the deplorable Munich conference and it may confidently be expected that under his wretched domination Germany still regards written treaties as mere scraps of paper...
...Reported his action in a long, sharply worded communique which the State Department promptly made public, and added that he was still trying to telephone City of Flint's Captain Joseph Gainard, hardbitten Yankee seafarer who appeared in the news two years ago as captain in the Algic mutiny case...
...fact remains that--regardless of figures--this blow to education could have been avoided by a measure of flexibility in the appointment of associate professors and a willingness to appoint associates in some cases where predictable vacancies in the full professor rank are not ahead. The blow can still be avoided by acceptance of this policy coupled with some judicious reappointments...