Word: tapering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate of loss on missions runs around 0.3%, lowest in the theater. Early this month it set a record of 1,500 sorties by individual planes, without a loss. The Air Forces top command, which had expected to taper off production, this week let the Glenn L. Martin Co. announce that B-26 contracts were being increased, instead...
...might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained, but it is one that Moss Hart watched with his own eyes...
...Battle's biggest casualty among weapons is the tank, whose decline has already been noted (TIME, March 29). One plant recently laid off 9,000 workers. The U.S. Army has ordered manufacture of M-3 light tanks to taper off, eventually to stop. Manufacture of the M-7 (light-medium) tank-an Armored Forces bad guess-has already stopped. Production of new M-5 light tanks will be increased, but gradually. Medium tank production is being slowed...
Playing without Captain Don Forte, the only lineman left from last year's Seven Squaya Blocks, who received a foot injury which will probably keep him out of action for another three weeks, the squad has had scrimmages steadily the past few days. Yesterday they began to taper off with a long but light drill during the afternoon, and none in the morning. Today they will romp through signals in the Stadium...
...Quilting. The world of gossip of 75 years ago, that lies silent, stitched into quilt by hands that long ago lost their taper & silkiness & eyes & face their beauty, & all gone down to dust & silence; & to indifference to all gossip." Says Bernard DeVoto: "We could have used those scenes, if Mark had found a way of using them...