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...production was only half the battle. It dislocated the supply, but left demand untouched. How were even 4,224,152 new cars to be rationed to consumers, when increasing national income has sent guesstimates of next year's potential market for autos up 10% over this year? The gap-1,594,817 people who will want to buy nonexistent new cars-would normally be closed by higher prices. But the Administration is determined that in this war prices shall stay down. Its scheme: a stiff excise tax and a heavy brake on installment sales...
April 8. When the Yugoslavs let the Germans break through to the Vardar Valley, the three divisions of northern Greeks were cut off from Salonika. But the break-through in Yugoslavia had another, far more serious effect. It allowed the Germans to rush at full speed for the Monastir Gap-approximately at the juncture of Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, and at dead center of the whole Anglo-Greek defenses. Monastir Gap was not only a geological phenomenon: it was also a gap in the Anglo-Greek defense, left because the Allies thought the Yugoslavs would hold the Germans...
...youthful U.S. cinema industry, she had weathered a thousand terrible fates. With daredevil Ruth Roland (Ruth of the Rockies, Love and the Law, etc.) she was co-queen of the U.S. sequel-cinema in the days when To Be Continued Next Week left an agonizing seven-day gap in the lives of thousands of silent-serial fans...
...diseases. But since they could neither see nor filter out viruses, scientists assumed that they were living, submicroscopic organisms. In 1935 Stanley showed that a pure strain of virus could be crystallized-consisted of lifeless molecules with the curious, lifelike power of reproducing themselves. This discovery closed the mysterious gap between living and inert matter, indicated no essential distinction except relative complexity of structure between atom, molecule, virus, cell and multicellular organism such...
Leonardo da Vinci seems first to have noticed that widths of tree rings vary in wet and dry years, but there is a big gap between his discovery and a history of tree rings that chronicles Midwest weather as far back as 1300 A.D.-a study released this week by Anthropologist Florence May Hawley of the University of Chicago...