Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers his audience sought did not seem to lie in the involuted thinking of Henry Wallace's misty theories. Te solve U.S. domestic problems, he had proposed a 10% reduction in prices, increased wages out of the "swollen profit structure." To bridge the widening gap between the U.S. and Russia, he proposed turning U.S. atom bombs over to the U.N. with no strings attached, a ten-year Russian reconstruction program underwritten by the U.S., internationalization of strategic areas...
...Storer College at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., has a magnificent view of the Potomac gap, which Thomas Jefferson thought was ". . . worth a voyage across the Atlantic." On Storer's campus stands the Arsenal that John Brown held for 60 hours. Moved from the site in downtown Harpers Ferry where Major Robert E. Lee captured Old Osawatomie, it was presented to the college...
...South & West were jubilant. Still pending were suits brought by Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall and the Department of Justice, which would try to narrow the gap between North & South still more. The ICC was planning for the day when every type of freight would move at a standard mile-for-mile rate everywhere in the U.S. When that day came, the effects on the economy of the U.S. would be incalculable...
Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
...increased production cannot be absorbed if wages do not keep step with prices. This gap between the two will be widened if labor's power is destroyed, for who is going to protect the worker's wage when his union is made powerless? This union-killing policy will lead us only to another depression. After World War 1 the unions were weakened; prices and profits seared, but wages lagged. Buying fell off, men lost their jobs and we faced the great depression...