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...acquaintance of at least a third of the nation's citizenry with nature is largely limited to the spectacle of a strip of park lawn and a few trees which have valiantly withstood the ravages of factory smoke. City shut-ins are likely to forget that all one needs to penetrate a wilderness of 13,000 sq. mi. is a car. a fortnight and a few dollars. The National Park Service does the rest. These are popular Western spots...
...legislators withstood the waggish barrage for ten days. Then another bill was quietly introduced. Very quickly, with no voice raised in opposition, North Carolina's Senate & House last week repealed the chickadee...
After a four-day moratorium, the doors of Cuban banks opened slightly. Only currency deposits were accepted; withdrawals were limited until March 26 to 10% of commercial and savings accounts. Except for cinemas, business withstood the bank holiday reasonably well. Cinema houses closed in towns throughout the provinces due to the fact that managers had not only a cash shortage to contend with but bombs thrown by enemies of the Machado administration...
...stress are being worked out by Mr. Den Hartog and his assistants, which involve the use of membranes, electricity, and water. The results of these stress experiments are expected to be of practical value in large building projects, enabling engineers more accurately to determine the strains which may be withstood by skyscrapers and dams...
...time President has ever had to face before. Not a day has passed that he has not devoted all of his waking hours in an attempt to solve those problems. He has never lost patience and never lost courage, and never lost faith in the American people. He has withstood the onslaughts of every radical who had some expensive idea for curing the world's ills. Both negatively and positively he has shown astounding courage in resisting dangerous experiments and in proposing constructive measures of assistance. While his critics have been voluble with abuse, they have never offered a constructive...