Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunisia (where unsupported armored force before Kasserine Gap was smashed by German artillery) U.S. task forces are now formed around infantry divisions...
Lacking the services of attackman Dink Donahue, the Crimson lacrosse team travels to New Haven today to tackle a strong Eli ten. Donahue, who has been worth a couple of goals each game, leaves a gap in the Harvard attack that will be hard to fill...
About 800 civilian students are expected in the College this summer, it is pointed out, and many classes will therefore find great teachers lecturing to a handful of listeners. The gap could be filled by servicemen, who might get actual tickets to specific classes through the USO or a similar agency. In this way the number of men at a given class would not get out of hand, and no man would get to more than his share of classes...
...airplanes will be discontinued. One of them is a secret. The other is the Curtiss P-40 series which has filled a big gap in the Air Forces in spite of its limitations (altitude, speed and rate of climb). Its record in the Pacific indicated that it had all but outlived its usefulness. But the P-40 has already had one reprieve. It was to have been discontinued in February. As a result of its successes in Africa it will now be produced until next fall. (If its successor, a new, secret Curtiss fighter, does not pan out as well...
...creation. But if inflation is going to be controlled not only simple income taxation, but other measures even more daring than Ruml's will have to be considered. A general sales tax would be effective in touching war-fattened pocket-books and in reducing the inflationary gap. A tax on mass consumption may be justly shied away from in peace-time but is unjustly feared under unusual war conditions. Compulsory saving also might be weighed thoughtfully, if not tried. It too gets at the heart of inflation, and does not merely slow down the circulation...