Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon (who resigned from the Liberal Party last month): "The report of the Economy Committee declares that to produce a properly balanced budget in 1932 a gap of £120,000,000 ($583,200,000) will have to be filled either by fresh taxation or economy...
...Either alternative will be unpleasant. Indeed it is obvious that the limits of direct taxation have been reached and the gap is not going to be filled merely by reiterating our fiscal convictions. I prefer to see the gap bridged by effective economies, but I confess the gravest doubts whether the MacDonald Government is capable of effecting economies on the scale needed...
...Chicago, Mrs. Janet Estes filed suit for divorce because her husband neglected her for picture postcards. To fill a gap in his series, he went to Elkhart, Ind., remained there a year. Last fortnight he wrote home for his passport, said he was going to Russia "to round out a memorable monument of postcards...
...rigged a wire between two peaks at Monte Generoso, near the Italian-Swiss border. That is a region of frequent and violent thunderstorms. Like Benjamin Franklin, the Germans intended to bring lightning to earth. When the rigging was set and lightning bolted, the emitted sparks jumped a 15-ft. gap. Improved rigging carried lightning sparks which spanned 55 ft. That meant that 16,000,000 volts had momentarily been trapped...
...cash of late by methods peculiar to governments. The last balance sheet of the Austrian National Bank showed an increase in Austrian note circulation of 16% in one week and the discounted bills had increased by some $30,000,000. These emergency measures were taken, admittedly, as a stop-gap means of saving Kreditanstalt until permanent measures could be taken. Day after desperate day frightened depositors swarmed around the threatened institution, talked earnestly with each other and with officials who worked overtime reassuring the public. Every depositor who refused to be reassured got his money, but the currency of Austria...