Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commercial orders are nowhere near large enough to bridge the gap. Since January, planemakers have turned out only 145 multi-engined transports for the airlines and the saturation point is already at hand. To keep their heads above water, manufacturers have switched to new sidelines. Douglas is now making aluminum dinghies as well as bomber frames. Bell has gone into metal furniture and gasoline engines; Curtiss-Wright turns out textile spindles and film projectors. Even those companies still making money are having trouble keeping skilled labor crews and engineering staffs together, are trimming their sails for the day when present...
...gap between expected registrants and the last minute developments has been caused by an unforseen large number of men on leave of absence picking up their "rainchecks," Watson said...
...over the possible courses of action. Devaluation of the Canadian dollar would step up the intake of U.S. dollars, but it would also boost the Canadian cost of living, so that was out. Canada might sell more to the U.S., but it could never sell enough to close the gap. She could hope for European purchases, to be paid for in dollars, if the "Marshall approach" got under way. But that was a matter beyond Canada's control. The remaining alternatives were a U.S. loan, or a cut in U.S. imports...
...effort to close the perilous gap between the progress of science and the progress of morals, Yale University announced last week that it will double its science courses for liberal arts students, double required courses in the humanities for science majors. Said Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School: "Science alone may make monsters...
...revival of the Register was undertaken chiefly to fill the gap left last week when the more elaborate Red Book was cancelled because of financial insecurity. The new venture will be without advertising and will appear during the first week in December...