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...Great Britain and France, which held that the planes and trucks rightfully belonged to them because Poland owes them for raw materials supplied before...
...hundreds of fellow travelers the same symptoms-"rapid pulse . . . labored breathing, dilated pupils, and a euphoristic tingling"-which characterize "all other major passions, such as love, greed, poetry, and the quintessence of them all, religion," Koeves dignifies travel as a "virus," as "a form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...
With cheap electric power here in this state and with the raw materials so close at hand, would our Eastern steel friends say that plants should be built in the East to supply the million or more tons of iron requirements on this Coast...
...spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
Last week at the annual Pittsburgh meeting of the Air Hygiene Foundation, the beaming Clarks exhibited two of their brood of 85 windowed rabbits. In one rabbit's ear were tiny black specks of silica dust, which had been dropped into the raw tissue last June. Purpose of the experiment is to discover whether irritation of silica grains alone produces silicosis (dread "stony" lung disease often acquired by miners of silica) or whether complicating factors, such as mild tuberculosis, are necessary to bring on the disease...