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...would yield at least 15 billion dollars. The bill provides for approximately $6,800,000,000, not even half what the fiscal experts, who must finance the war, demanded. Left untouched by taxation or what the public normally could spend on consumers goods are 18 billion dollars threatening to whirl the country into an inflationary spiral. It was part of this amount that the treasury hoped to get, or discourage from exchange with its ill-fated spendings-tax. And lastly, the largest revenue groups, the upper two-thirds income brackets, have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married...
...night vibrated with the whirl of wings as our planes took to the skies to attack the Japanese air and sea raiders. Enemy bombs bracketed our encampment and a few were killed and several injured. The Marines, cursing "Tojo" tumbled from their bedrolls to their foxholes and then back to bed again. The moon broke hazily through the scudding clouds and made splotches of pale light beneath the palm and ironwood trees. It was a typical night on Guadalcanal...
Stricken visitors hurry on, only to find themselves in a dark corridor where the hands of a big clock whirl madly and a voice cries over & over: "The task is long -the time is short...
...sabotage, opportunities for it were "abundant." Background to Chaos was laid when Washington ordered the Normandie made ready to sail for Boston on Feb. 14. Workers protested that it would take much longer. Washington insisted. For weeks rush orders, counter-rush orders kept contractors and subcontractors in a whirl...
...today leads the world in the science of gun-making," says Brigadier General Holland W. Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal molds which whirl rapidly until the metal hardens. Impurities are forced to the hollow center of the barrel, where they are easily bored away, and blowholes and shrinkages are avoided...