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...plentiful chemicals-urea and formaldehyde-which are synthesized from coal, air and water. In the impregnating process, wood is pressed and soaked in a methylolurea solution, which is converted by the wood's acids into hard, insoluble resins. The wood becomes brittle, but this disadvantage can be partly offset by impregnating only the outer part of the wood, leaving a resilient core...
...acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...
...Danziger Vorposten wrote with remarkable frankness: "It is stupid and even criminal to put into words what people are thinking in every house, tramway and street." Many Germans are weary, have the jitters. But their sense of discipline and their driving dread of defeat largely offset their fatigue...
...political and business experience by an engaging candor: "Lots of people ask me questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan of World War I's nurse Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough...
Southern Retreat. Good news from the north was partially offset by bad tidings from the south. There, on the road to Rumania, the Red Command admitted withdrawals-its first in ten weeks. (Berlin promptly blossomed out with a report of ten Soviet infantry divisions and several tanks corps "wiped...