Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measures 206-inches between housings, still rolls the wides steel plates of any mill in the world. It has made plates as wide as 202 inches. It has rolled from ingots weighing as much as 59 tons. It has rolled plates as thick as 2-inches, many of which support big buildings in New York City...
...unconditioned property of labor. Lewis is the chief spokesman of labor; in the White House he could no longer be that. While a labor President, backed by a majority in Congress, could make great contributions toward winning security for labor's millions, a President dependent on the support of other strata of the population would have to heed various pressures. To be the leader of an aggressive, growing labor movement makes Lewis far more serviceable to the working people than to be a captive in the White House...
...plebiscite last week throughout Greater Germany, Austrians voted 99.75% in support of Adolf Hitler and union. In Germany proper, where two years ago Hitler won by 98.79%, he last week won by 98.63%. The official count admitted 452,180 votes of "No," 75,342 spoiled ballots. Just before midnight, with returns virtually complete, the Dictator exulted over a nationwide hookup: "For me this hour is the proudest in my life...
Kenosha is a picturesque manufacturing town (pop. 50,262) with many churches, and sufficiently labor-minded to support a weekly, Kenosha Labor, edited by Socialist Paul Porter. Last December its American...
Describing the present British foreign policy as "an evil policy dedicated to the preservation of the decaying structure of European capitalism," Laski said that the new rearmament program will make any constructive social program impossible for more than a generation. The tax rate necessary to support both would be impossible, he said...