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...decade or more the world's makers of air-cooled aircraft engines had pondered one problem: how to fabricate strong cylinder heads cheaply. Even the best cylinder heads sometimes cracked under prolonged stress. Heads have two functions: to withstand the tremendous pressures generated by the cylinder's air-gas vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird...
Wages, in a word, were to be chilled but not frozen. Observers wondered how long that kind of refrigeration could withstand the hot demands of workers, who could not understand why wages in the midst of a war-boom prosperity could not keep up with cost of living. Mr. Roosevelt had killed labor legislation. It remained to be seen whether he had lassoed inflation...
Nelson warns that, before the war is over, our standard of living will be far lower and that "we shall need to be tough physically, emotionally, mentally" in order to withstand the stain of harder work, and the crossfire of many disappointments and alarms...
...every pass, every cut through which key highways and railways threaded. Successively, as the invader advanced, Java's arteries could thus be blocked to anything on wheels. Mined passes commanded every approach to the Bandung fortress, and at the worst Java's Army was prepared to withstand a siege there comparable to Douglas MacArthur's on Bataan. -Dutch, British and U.S. aircraft rose incessantly from interior airdromes, met the invader in the air and strafed him on the ground, returned, reloaded and refueled, took off again. Pilots who had planes shot from under them parachuted down. Then...
Duhig explained that no action of this type is contemplated here since the financial setup is in a position to withstand any curtailment for at least the next two years. Any change in N.Y.A. appropriations would affect almost a hundred students. Most of these men now hold jobs in Widener Library or in the Boylston History Library...