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WASHINGTON--House Republicans; bent on unwavering support of the Ruml "skip-a-year" tax plan, today put off until Thursday a conference on party floor strategy designed to win approval of the proposal over stern Administration opposition...
...later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective aid for the convoy could not get into...
...Dowst '46 of Walker House and Somerville, marched briskly up the slippery (oh they were always slippery) steps of 14 Plympton Street. He said he had it, and yea, we believed him. "Give a look," he says, so we looked Here's the dope. He underlined things, sort of skipping every few words, and the way he figures Skip's in trouble...
Since then skip-bombing has become a standard for the Fifth Air Force of Lieut. General George Kenney. And every time it brings in returns, Kenney's airmen thank a cheerful, extroverted major named William G. Benn, of Washington...
Bill Benn was a flying archeologist in Persia in 1938 when he decided to join the Air Forces. He went to Australia as aide to George Kenney, forthwith began his first experiment on skip-bombing when he had heard the R.A.F. was using...