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...merely for ?1 did Australia's uneasy conservative coalition lose power. A. W. Coles, whose vote helped to defeat it, is one of Australia's leading capitalists. Director of a string of "half-crown" stores, he is sometimes called Australia's Woolworth. He has been sharply criticized by Labor and the trade unions many times. But both he and Independent Wilson agree with Labor that the war should be financed with Commonwealth bank credits instead of through the higher-interest-bearing plan proposed by onetime Accountant Fadden (TIME, Sept...
...first-string attack lines up at present it forms a strong, well-knit offensive with sufficient individual talent and a good deal of co-operative team-work. Backed by such reserves as Art Neff, Ernie Staber, Fritz Kempner, and Howie Malloy it presents a formidable line...
Another absentee yesterday was second string blocking back Ted Lyman, who was bumped on the leg in Tuesday's scrimmage. There is no statement forthcoming from the doctors as to how serious Lyman's injury is, but third string blocker Davy Goldthwait saw a good deal of action on the first team yesterday, which might indicate that Harlow was planning to use him considerably against the Ithacans...
...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...
...mechanism of rubber elasticity. Physicist Guth said: "The molecules of rubber are like long flexible strings. . . . If one throws a flexible string into the air, it will land in a curved, coiled-up form, rather than a straight form. Similarly, in an unstretched rubber band, the rubber molecules will be coiled up. Stretching the rubber actually stretches its long flexible molecules from the curved to the straight form...