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...hold of a freighter, but is destroyed when the ship is sunk by naval gunfire. When the other and her brood are traced to the 700 miles of sewer conduit that crisscross beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, martial law is declared, and a jeep-borne army contingent roars in to wipe the things...
...battle developing on public housing. Within three hours after the Administration's housing bill was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, South Carolina's Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank, long a champion of public housing, introduced an amendment to wipe out all provisions for public housing. Reason: Maybank is furious about last week's Supreme Court decision (TIME, May 31) prohibiting racial segregation in a California public-housing project...
...high as 7,400 ft. on log roads. Even more important, MK's idea for joint ventures was a solution to the dam builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might wipe them out. But in joint ventures, with many companies sharing costs and profits (or losses), construction men could aim at the moon...
...Bolshevism as such cannot be changed by democratic means," he said. "It is inhuman the way it is set up, always seeking to wipe out its foes...
...sitting alone on the government front bench. His blue suit crumples. The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily. He fidgets. His left hand rubs slowly over his cheeks, reaches for a handkerchief to wipe his plumpish fate. Or his right forefinger goes round and upward to scratch the top of his head...