Word: gaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trail to stop the Japs. Over the jungle and mountain trail that leads out of Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village 60 miles north of Moresby and 60 miles south of Buna, which has a small airfield. At Oivi, a few miles...
Andy went off to teach college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most...
Today Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has 1,600 acres, a small endowment, a herd of 40 cattle, a new beef barn just completed by its students. Last week old Dr. Andy, now 75 and retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed...
...with a Heavy Foot. At 52, Eddie Rickenbacker (ne Richenbacher) had, almost better than any other American, spanned the gap from youthful hero to solid citizen, from daring combat flyer to successful businessman. Young Eddie went to work at twelve in Columbus, Ohio: glass works, brewery, steel mill, monument works, shoe factory, bicycle shop. The shop was also an automobile garage. Eddie learned to drive, moved on to an auto factory, studied engineering via the International Correspondence School. It was speed that interested him. At 20, known on all racing tracks as a man "with a heavy foot," he cleaned...
With even the newest revenue measures falling short of actual war costs, no phase of the nation's accelerated production program can afford to lay itself open to accusations of faulty economy. Already the gap between buying power and consumer goods is of inflationary proportions. Dust on Aiken's charges can clog the war machine...