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Roaring along in high gear, and with a five game winning streak to show for it. Coach Stahl's nine young men move into Providence today to match base hits with a Brown team in the second and last inter-collegiate game of the summer season...
With all three coaches unexpectedly on hand and with plenty of gas for the launches, crew activity for the second semester of the Summer School has gone into high gear...
...unbalanced house-of-cards structure of the U.S. economy after two years of war strains and stresses. He had his own ideas on how to manage the economy. But he was willing to forget them, if somebody would lay down an over-all policy to which he could sensibly gear price control...
...Caucasian oil fields, which are almost within Hitler's grasp, would make up the Nazi oil deficit and enable the Germans to keep their war machine in high gear. If Hitler should be able to capture these fields, however, he would probably have to spend about ten mouths in repairing the refineries and oil wells which would be destroyed in accordance with Russian "scorched earth" policy...
...struggle to take away what power he had caught Nelson at a bad time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...