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...solemnly covenanted to pay. When Minister Alfaro left, he admitted that he got no promise that the debtor would live up to its engagement. ¶ Weary from the heavy job of setting up machinery to spend his $4,000,000,000 works fund and trying to spur Congress into action, the President got some relief when, for the first time this year, the weather was pleasant enough for him to spend an afternoon on the Potomac aboard the Sequoia. ¶ Fortnight ago the President and Chief Justice Hughes considered the disposal of that half of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...success of the House Plan insofar as the participation of the students is concerned should spur the authorities on to the final settlement of other problems, a compatibility between the scaling of dining hall prices and eating at clubs, a more normal scaling of room rents, and an individuality other than athletic and social...
...concomitantly non-industrial state which must have even more arms than its arms-producing neighbor. Complete publicity of the international arms trade might quite easily be turned into a new imperialism of the producing over the non-producing states. At any rate, the limslight thrown upon it would inevitably spur on present arms races. A realistic view of the situation must be regained. Frank E. Sweetser...
Mesta boasts that the only limit to the size of a machine part that it can turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy planes, 18 U. S. submarines, three minelayers, countless small craft. To spur the search, the Australian Government offered a $5,000 reward...