Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rutland (Vt.) Junior College, founded 1946, the first three years had been bitterly hard. To begin with, the original $150,000 fund-raising campaign had fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed...
...unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been eased. In 1947, the British had bought in dollar countries nearly $3 billion more than they had sold. That deficit had been halved in 1948, and the Cripps report called for more exports to close the gap...
Today the Senate will start debate on extending rent-controls, which expire March 31. The House has already passed its own rent-ceiling bill. Neither of the measures follow the administration's original plans. The great gap between supply and demand in available housing means that just how far these bills are modified during the next few days will probably affect the national economy as much as any other legislation facing Congress this year...
...Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn't let anything good come...