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...Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, where the survey began, Dr. Tugwell reassured a gathering of farm experts by declaring: "All this talk about depopulating the Great Plains is foolish. We don't want to depopulate the country. We want to fortify it to withstand drought...
Bishop Schrembs: "Father Coughlin is really fighting for the preservation of American democracy, which I am sure will successfully withstand European surges toward Communism and toward Fascism. . . . Father Coughlin's stand on money is in accordance with the Pope's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. If you read that you will find it more radical than Father Coughlin himself...
...riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand the end of Jock's prosperity in 1929. When the rehabilitating spirit of 1935 reached the alcohol-sodden and philandering Jock, Mary felt she had a right to leave him, since he did not need her any more. Once more Hallam...
...This is mad persecution advanced to the most pitiable stages of New Deal-irium," roared Royalist Jones. "While I, of course, realize that few business concerns could withstand such continued and powerful efforts at sabotage, nevertheless I warn against the dangers of vicious governmental malevolence bent on riding roughshod over individual rights and Constitutional guarantees hitherto respected by our Government...
...vexatious problem is that of weight. Fuel tanks must be light but capable of withstanding high pressure. For the moment aluminum alloys serve fairly well for tanks and motor but not for the jet nozzles which often collapse in a few minutes. This is due not only to heat but also to the abrading effect of the issuing gases. "Will electrochemists supply us," asked Professor Klemin, "with another super-aluminum alloy to withstand all this...