Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee out of the mud" was given Democratic renomination over L. E. Gwinn. Memphis attorney who complained that Negroes "in droves" had been voted in the party primary. C. Arthur Bruce was the Republican gubernatorial nominee. In the First Congressional District, Republican Congressman B. Carroll Reece, with the open support of President Hoover on the Muscle Shoals issue, was renominated over Samuel R Price...
...customary things were lacking from this high political retirement: 1) a public letter from the President praising the outgoing chairman's service; 2) a public pledge by the chairman to continue to support the President. It was perfectly clear that Claudius Hart Huston and Herbert Clark Hoover are no longer friends...
...high heat-insulating value, its sound-deadening properties, its light weight. According to the use for which it is needed, it can be made from 20% to 75% of weight of ordinary concrete. Authorities expect it to reduce by almost one-fourth the weight of steel necessary to support a building. Aerocrete floors have been put in a new addition to Bethlehem Steel Corp. at Bethlehem, Pa. and in the Golden Hill Building, Manhattan...
Later the R-100 poked into a squall. Officers and men clutched for support. Fuel slopped out of tanks. Worse, the hydrogen balloonets were in danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
...pledges of silence were taken. But the purpose of the meeting was neither unknown nor new. For several years European manufacturers have considered limiting Europe's imports of U. S. cars but have never been able to agree on the means. Never has there been the necessary government support for the movement until the new, higher U. S. Tariff evoked talk of reprisals throughout Europe, direct reprisals in Italy and France. Last week's meeting found the European motor men nearer agreed, prepared to ride together on a favorable tide of public sentiment...