Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Navy retaliated with a concentrated campaign against the Army's present service bomber, the B-36. A civilian employee named Cedric Worth drafted an "anonymous" letter, with the help of some interested friends, denouncing the B-36 as a slow and eminently vulnerable airplane. The letter also hinted that...
The experts are backing up the Air Force. Almost all of the Navy's operations in the Pacific were tactical--knock-out-a beachhead-or-a-fleet affairs the carriers brought short-ranged planes up to where they could thoroughly work over their targets. In flying off planes which still...
The Navy still has plenty to do. Airbases and beachheads and land-armies have to be put ashore and supplied. Russia has 200 old reasonably good submarines which may someday become quite a headache. The establishment of an offshore radar picket line for spotting and knocking down approaching aircraft is...
"Devaluation is the most obvious way of attacking the British problem," Professor Williams says. "But no program for stopping Britain's loss of reserves and correcting her dollar deficit will carry conviction unless the right foundation in British policy is laid for offsetting certain dangers." Among the dangers the professor...
Professor Williams also cites Britain's conflict between improving her balance of payments and running a social walfare state. While he does not complain that British nationalization as such holds back production and productivity, Professor Williams believes both sides of the British socialist budget are to high. "Taxes, always essentially...