Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, two fast convoys were organized and sent to plug the Hawaii gap...
Tolbukhin's victory was the reward of daring. After a gap was torn in the Nazi lines north of Taganrog, his tanks and Cossacks rushed in, then wheeled south towards the sea. Other units, meanwhile, stormed Taganrog's front gates. When the din of battle died down, 35,000 Nazi corpses littered the steppe, 5,100 dejected survivors straggled into prisoner pens...
That figure is $36.6 billion more than the total amount of goods, services and taxes which U.S. citizens and corporations were able-or forced-to buy and pay for, v. a $28.7 billion difference last September. Thus the "inflationary gap" (up 27%) widened at a faster rate than the national income rose...
Some economists believe that from now on the "inflationary gap" may stand relatively still. But no economist has brought forth a solid plan to reduce it. One thing this quarter's figures showed: even with no increase in nonwage income, the increase in wage-and-salary "gap money"-$17 billion-would still have added mightily to the hoard that threatens uncontrolled inflation...
Meanwhile the Aeronautical Mechanics' Union okayed an increase in the work day from eight to ten hours, but its membership voted it down. This jeopardized a stopgap measure Phil Johnson was promoting: a five-hour shift for housewives to cover the gap between two ten-hour shifts. Probability: Flying Fortress production will continue...