Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is worth a thousand words, two such contrasting ones are worth a million in showing the gap between totalitarianism and democracy...
Expansion. The new restrictions were only temporary cures for the unhealthy gap between Canadian imports from the U.S. ($1½ billion in 1947's first nine months) and Canadian exports to the U.S. ($733 million in the same period). What about a permanent cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many...
Another, and perhaps more irreplaceable, gap, will also appear in the Crimson lineup when the 1947 grid campaign recedes into history. Unsung will be his memory, for his job is to shine in the reflected glory of others...
...things that money could buy-than ever before in their lives, or in history. To all the rest of the world, America seemed like a dream of plenty in the nightmare of worldwide need. To most Americans too, their prosperity was a dream, and an uneasy one. The gap between the U.S. ideal of peace & prosperity (as symbolized in wartime posters) and the reality with which the U.S. was surrounded, was sharp and deep. If this was peace & prosperity-and what else was it?-most Americans wanted something better, for themselves and for the world...
...Across the Wide Missouri" deals in more basic factors; it points out a Rocky Mountain for empire that looted the west long before the first covered wagon became even a dream. Mr. Devote credits an army of trappers as the real trailblazers and in doing so plugs a notorious gap in American historical literature...