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...Simplified, strengthened, deflated and purified," Il Duce said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...realize that I am too light in weight to withstand the gruelling endurance test of a long distance swim. I want to swim around Manhattan Island then do both the English Channel and the Hellespont. That means I'll have to put on some extra poundage. Quite a lot of it, for I weigh only...
...cruisers, a maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded machine-gun mount. Reason: Government regulations forbid the export of any model, less than one year old, of fighting equipment built...
Twice backed up to within four yards of their own goal line, the Harvard eleven showed a stubborn resistance which was so completely shattered last week, and thereby indicated that, in spite of several second and third string substitutions, it still had at its command the power to withstand attack when not rattled. As conspicuous as this new line defense was, a forward-pass defense, which has not been seen in the Stadium this year, rendered the Holy Cross passes incomplete 18 times, and five times prevented the Crusaders from scoring...
...stratosphere above Switzerland are Dr. William Beebe's dives toward the bottom of the sea off Bermuda. Dr. Beebe, field agent for the New York Zoological Society, uses a bathysphere. 4¾ ft. quartz-windowed steel ball with walls 1½ in. thick. Its purpose is to withstand the pressure of deep sea water, whereas Professor Piccard's 7-ft. aluminum gondola was constructed to prevent its explosion in rarefied...