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...tightest, grimmest war shortage facing the U.S. is rubber. It need not have been. For five months after Pearl Harbor the U.S. government did practically nothing effective to get a synthetic rubber industry created to fill the gap caused by Japan's conquests. That failure is the worst scandal of the U.S. war effort; the sort of scandal which, in another country, would have cost a couple of Ministers their jobs or perhaps have toppled a whole government. Only in the past eight weeks has a new team, with a passion for anonymity, arisen in Washington to take hold...
Last fortnight the Japs took the last Chinese gap in one section of this route (Hangchow to Nanchang). Last week they reached for the railway between Nanchang and Chuchow, which in turn joins lines to Kwangsi, Indo-China, Siam and Malaya...
...this was part of the Government's program for closing a bit of the inflationary gap by making people pay off their old debts before running up new ones. All accounts must now be paid in 70 days (i.e., June purchases by August 10). With department-store dollar volume already running below 1941, most merchants thought it would mean extra-slim pickings this month while the arrears were being cleared up. After that, there should be no sales slump solely because of the credit straitjacket...
Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
...miscalculation. He sent his tanks south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...