Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delivered its report to the War Department on the cause & cure of the Army's "caste system." Its 53 pages and 10,000 words boiled down to a diagnosis which surprised no one: the roots of the disease were 1) poor leadership; 2) an excessive official and social gap between officers...
...strike was the lives of thousands of Europeans who are depending on grain which last week lay useless in American freight cars. The strike could not continue and under great pressure the President took drastic action which scared the Railway Brotherhoods back to work. As a strictly temporary stop-gap Mr. Truman's program is barely tolerable, and as a permanent policy it is unthinkable...
Even after whittling diets to a "bedrock" 1,500 daily calories, after stringently paring allocations of food to a subsistence minimum, Herbert Hoover conservatively figured that there still remained a "tragic gap" of 3,600,000 tons between world needs and world surpluses of exportable breadstuffs. This, said he, is "the whole amount necessary to save 40,000,000 people...
...rationing the answer? Herbert Hoover thought not. "If we can succeed in persuading every man and woman, every nation to do their utmost, we shall master this famine." His familiar suggestions for closing the gap without rationing: 1) voluntary reduction in diet by every U.S. citizen; 2) get every grain of cereal to market...
...their early 20's. The substitution of recruiting for the draft will not remove the objections to an adolescent occupation force. If the volunteers are to be men over 21, they will still be eligible for recruiting while the drafting of teen-agers will provide a flexible gap-filler to insure adequate manpower. If a sufficient number of men volunteer, induction quotas can always...