Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilots and planes-at Midway and in the inconclusive naval clash in which the Ryuzyo was possibly sunk late in August (see below)-that they have had to send green flyers against Guadalcanal. Planes shot down there have carried 1942 manufacturers' stamps. Zeros encountered there are of an inferior design...
...weak compromise between compulsory savings and a sales tax, and inferior to the Treasury plan. It should have been defeated for at least five reasons: (1) It will help but slightly to check inflation because the lowest income groups spend most of their wages on necessities such as food, and for larger incomes a five per cent levy is not heavy enough, (2) It burdens the poorest families most, taxing as low as the subsistence wage of $12 a week, $600 a year. In this income area there is scarcely enough to keep a family alive. A third meal...
...committee praised the performance of Army bombers and flatly rejected charges that fighters are inferior to those of Germany, Italy, or Japan, declaring that "in the final analysis, it is the box score that counts...
Tough little Harry S. Truman, tillerman on the Senate Committee investigating the war effort, made move No. 2 last week to get at the heart of the controversy over the quality of U.S. war planes. Move No. 1 was his blast on Sept. 14 at their inferior performance in some weight and type categories. Now he called Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, for questioning...
...United Press dispatch from Turkey reported that 300 Hungarian officers had been arrested last week for aiding Yugoslav, Polish and Russian guerrillas.) Mostly, however, the Yugoslavs fight with the same inferior weapons they had when the struggle started 16 months ago. But they fight an unflaggingly bitter war, as witness this tribute from the Italian press: "Italian troops are faced with terrible suffering in this fight against an irreconcilable foe, against a hostile population, in a country where death lurks behind every rock...