Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether any plans for amalgamation between the '45 Album and any other book are underway is as yet uncertain. Present indications point to the book being exclusively for the Class of 1945, however...
...that supply and communication between their units was seriously impeded. The U.S. and Royal Navies, including many U.S. torpedo boats, dominated the Mediterranean waters around the island; Allied airmen held as absolute air control as could be, short of enemy capitulation. The Italian troops still with the Germans were uncertain allies, now used mostly for labor. Behind them, Italy was crumbling...
...holding up prices and by cutting down production. . . . I believe in our democratic, capitalistic system, but it must be a capitalism of abundance and full employment. If we return to a capitalism of scarcity . . . the returning soldiers and displaced war workers will speak in no uncertain terms. . . . Too many millions of our people come out of the dark cellars and squalor of unemployment ever to go back...
...guns and the Honeys took the steam out of the Germans; they withdrew a little. Momentarily our rear was safe. But with the 3rd battalion driven back on our right, our position was still uncertain. The only thing to do, said the Colonel, was to attack, take White House Hill and deprive the Germans of observation. It did not matter that we would be isolated. We had to take the hill...
This progression is a certainty. The timing and order of its development are highly uncertain. The timing and order, even as they exist today in secret Allied plans, are subject to change with the fortunes of war on the fringe, in Russia, in the air penetration of inner Europe, in the battle of sea supply. All predictions are idle, and they will be even more so as the armies pause to regroup, as commanders pause to reconsider, as the unforeseeable effects of the first blows sink in upon the enemy. All that the public can know is that certain objectives...