Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balancing the cuts and increases, taxpayers could easily see that there was a happy gap between the $2,000,000,000 in estimated expenditures and the more than $2,500,000,000 the Government is currently collecting in taxes. Some cuts in taxes seemed sure...
This month the Harvard Liberal Union's publication appears under the name "The Student Progressive" and announces its intention to fill the gap in the serious student publication field on the national level. Denying all illusions about their ability to save the world, the editors have nevertheless marshalled together a series of articles which constitutes a well rounded political and economic program...
China. This was a life-saving fund, and Under Secretary of State William Clayton pledged that it would only be used to fill the gap left by an expiring UNRRA. A War Department item included another $725 million for rehabilitation of occupied countries. The two items totaled $1 billion plus-a figure which Herbert Hoover, back from Europe, estimated would be closer to $1.5 billion if all foreign relief programs are to be anywhere near adequate. On top of that would come the $250 million for Greece...
...settlement houses are for the most part unable to hire the bulk of their staff and must depend upon volunteers. Of thirty-five houses in the Greater Boston area, there are twenty-six at the present time with a shortage of personnel and a curtailed program to match. This gap can well be filled in large part by students who can spare two hours weekly...
...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...