Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and Congress were snarling at each other; the gap between them was greater than ever. New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey angrily exhibited a peculiar example of Presidential rancor (see The Congress). At memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...
When the world food shortage became acutely apparent four months ago, said he, there was an eleven-million-ton gap between the amount of food available for hungry nations and the amount needed to keep them alive. That gap, said Herbert Hoover, has now been closed...
Thanks to OPA's efforts since war's end, prices had been kept down until, for many kinds of goods, supply was almost within arm's reach of demand. For other goods, notably housing, there remained a big gap. No one really believed it would be bridged for several years. But that might not be wholly a misfortune: when prices start to recede on some fronts, continued house-building could keep the postwar cycle from ending in too vigorous a bust...
...foolish to expect a war-ravaged country such as the Philippines to diversify her entire economy in eight years so that other exports might fill the gap caused by a sugar barrier. Traditionally, sugar is to the Filipino standard of living as coffee is to the Brazilians or cotton to Mississippi growers. The comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from...
...Samborskimen were concerned, by the third Inning the game was out of sight. The Terriers tallied twice in the first frame, and after being blanked in the second, drove three more across in the third. Single scores in the fourth and sixth closed the gap slightly but a B.U. run in the sixth and a big four in the seventh definitely salted it away...