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...short, if the railroads get even a few thousand new cars, they will have to be built out of the inventories in car builders' hands and in railroad-owned shops. This may be tantamount to no new cars at all, unless most of the 18,000 are of wood construction for the appallingly low in ventories remaining must be conserved for repair work, to keep existing rolling stock in service...
...golf show is no small shucks. Sandwiched between the Negro National Amateur Open, Joe's tournament, with annual prize money of $1,000, will be a blue-ribbon golf event, tantamount to the white folks' tournament sponsored by Bobby Jones...
Last week Vichy's wily, grey little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan announced that France "will act to hasten the hour of peace." Since he also was openly of the opinion that Britain could not win the war, this was tantamount to saying that France would now openly help the Axis end the war by winning it. That Britain was well aware of her former ally's hostile intentions was evident...
...Westminster Kennel Club show, Manhattan's 65-year-old annual, is tantamount to the national show-dog championship of the U.S. But the Westminster is not the biggest, richest or most spectacular dog show in the world. The show that is all these things-bigger than England's famed Cruft's-is the Morris & Essex...
Although the old requirements permitted a reduction of only one course, many of the Departments offered so-called "thesis courses" which were conducted so informally and required so little work that they were tantamount to a half course reduction. Thesis courses will no longer be given...