Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill will provide only about one-fourth of the money the U.S. will spend on the war next year. Nor will it close the "inflationary gap"-between purchasing power and available civilian goods -that threatens the U.S. cost of living. President Roosevelt has estimated this year's spread at $20,000,000,000. If the inflationary gap is to be closed, more bonds will have to be bought-voluntarily or otherwise-or still bigger, meaner and tougher tax bills lie ahead...
...bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light of a match held to a long black cigar-a cherubic face in the gap between a black Homburg and a dark business suit...
...last century, and a slowing down in the actual advances of the world. This divergence of ideals and realities has led to four marked crises; crises of democracy, of self-determination, of economic affairs, and of ethics. The author does not draft a new faith to close the gap, but he does indicate some of its necessary aspects, such as an emphasis on obligations rather than rights, and a centering of economic life around the consumer, not the producer...
Another reason for the gap between income and outgo is the increased cost of union labor in recent years. In 1905 (when a limited financial statement was issued), Manager Heinrich Conried paid $544,000 to his principal singers (compared with the $532,900 paid by the Met last season), but only $95,000 for his orchestra ($341,000 last season), $66,000 for his chorus and ballet ($254,800 last season...
Believing that the 18 and 19 year olds of the nation are needed to win the war, the Union more specifically pointed out that married men with children and essential workers in defense industries are being drafted out of their jobs to fill the gap in our new 10,000,000 man army...