Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most military experts are beginning to feel that this attenuated naval force would be less than unfortunate. They point out that the Navy's light fundamentally centers around the question of who is going to fly out bombers from where. The Navy wants to stage them from carriers, and points to the wonderful mobility and endurance of its carrier task forces in the Pacific during the last war. The Air Force feels that this admitted flexibility of the task force is outweighed by the size limitations inherent in carrier planes, and the expense and vulnerability of the ships handling them...
...time worrying about these tasks, building up its anti-submarine forces and turning out specific anti-aircraft units like the fine new fast-living cruiser Worcester. There is an equally increasing feeling that it ought to finally bow gracefully out of the field of strategic bombing, make a little less noise, and get to work...
...With a four dollar pound it was much less profitable for British sellers to export to the dollar area than to the soft-currency areas. the thirty per cent devaluation should now make exports to the United States just about as profitable as to the non-dollar areas," Smithies points out. "I doubt if anything besides devaluation would have worked. And without devaluation the United States either would have to continue subsidizing Britain beyond 1952 or else abandon her to wrestle with the financial crisis that would seem bound to occur...
...inflammatory treatment" of race stories, says Race in the News, but there are still a few lucifers: "[Newsmen] strongly suspect that the 1946 riot in Columbia, Tenn. and the 1949 lynching in Wilkinson County, Ga.* would never have happened had editors there showed either more courage or less prejudice...
...developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...