Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pioneer Makes Good. Tom Braniff, 61, made his fortune selling insurance in boomtown Oklahoma City. In 1927 he financed an airline from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, 120 miles away. From the day it acquired its first Stinson cabin plane, the line lost money. Soon airline, plane and deficit were taken over by Backer Braniff, in fee simple...
...true and accurate estimate of what was still needed, even as its troops reached the Rhine at week's end, then the U.S. was due for one more rude shock. The new orders meant that the entire program for war had been underestimated. To make up the deficit, the U.S. was going to have to put up with shortages, forget reconversion for a while, and work as hard as it had before it blithely decided that victory in Europe was already...
Pointing out that a shortage of first-rate medical personnel already exists in teaching and research fields, Dean Burwell predicted that "the shortage will be more acute ten years from now unless plans are made for the avoidance of such a deficit...
...deficit in the first quarter and go into a 25 to 22 half-time lead...
...weakness of the present GI Bill, he explained, is that it bases educational opportunity on length of military service and not on "demonstrated ability." The bill should provide advanced education for "a carefully selected group; the length and types of such education to be related to the national educational deficit caused...