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Another strategic metal which has been in great shortage is cobalt, vital for hardening jet engines to resist intense heat. Last week the ingenuity of U.S. industry promised to boost the supply of cobalt 40% by 1953. Source of the promise: a new chemical refining process developed by American Cyanamid Co., fourth biggest U.S. chemical company...
Both Dominions, Griswold concluded, realize that they must now look more and more toward the United States since their populations are too small to resist pressures which may come from the north
...that the presidential weight was exactly 174 lbs., just what he wanted it to be. Harry Truman announced that he never felt better. Furthermore, the President had finally gotten the White House fixed up to suit him. Fully settled again, after three years at Blair House, he could not resist announcing that he had managed in the process to escape from That Bed-a carved and canopied four-poster which was installed by Teddy Roosevelt and dutifully occupied by every President since...
...concluded: "We must resist the attempt to get public money for such a competing school system and we must protect our democratic education again the selfish and alien philosophy represented by the parochial schools...
...almost constitutionally unable to resist friends or acquaintances who plead for her time or her help. When the late Serge Koussevitsky urged her to do a recorded version of the musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, she hesitated only long enough to be sure he was serious before hustling obediently off to Tanglewood to synchronize herself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...