Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress did not pass a thorough-going anti inflation measure. The Treasury proposed two plans to do the job as far as taxation could: the famous spendings tax and forced savings. Congress ignored both and filled the gap with one of the most unfair taxes in recent history, Senator Barkeley's "victory tax" of five per cent on all income...
Bill Fisher and Steve Mallett together took over Stannards old job and justified Coach Harlow's confidence in their ability to fill the gap. Sophomore right end Pete Garland redeemed himself after a difficult opening performance against mighty Penn three weeks ago. At that time the 200 pound weight star got lost in the intricacies of a specially concocted Harlow defense during the early part of the ball game and didn't get things straightened out until the Quakers had salted the contest away...
Green-clad Australian troops swept on to the Gap atop New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountain Range, neared Kokoda, which had been occupied by the Japs in August. But Lieut. General Sydney Fairbairn Rowell's crack Imperial troops had not yet found the main Jap forces which were supposed to be threatening Port Moresby. U.S. pilots strafed and bombed villages further along which the enemy had been known to occupy. General Rowell ordered up supplies, guns, ammunition, more troops, prepared to strengthen his positions along one of the world's wildest jungle-&-mountain trails, just in case...
Remarkably professional for a college production, this latest Wellesley effort dusts off the musty characters and recreates them with delightful freshness that does much to bridge the gap of time...
Next day the Australians pushed forward, but found no Japs, except some coolies who had been killed by strafing. At week's end the Australians had crossed two more ridges to reach Efogi (see map, p, 34), but still no Japs. Nearing the gap. the Aussies made "light contact" with Jap patrols, but where and when the battle of the Owen Stanley Mountains would be joined, nobody knew. The Australians crept forward more cautiously, lest they fall into a Jap trap...