Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt certain that, with increased pressure, the $1 billion quota for July and succeeding months would be reached. But proponents of enforced savings argued that even the sale of $6 billion in war bonds in the remainder of the year would not close the conservatively estimated $17 billion inflationary gap...
...China last week the Japanese held all but 50 of the 450 miles of railroad between Nanchang and Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...Ingot production of 85,000,000 tons this year will mean only 60,000,000 tons of finished steel. WPB launched a drive last week to narrow the gap by requiring, for example, closer figuring on how big a forging is needed to mill out a desired product...
This was no buying spree. What, then, was all this talk that something had to be done to close an inflationary gap which Leon Henderson estimated at $17,000,000,000? Why must they save twice as much, be taxed twice as much to keep from blowing the price ceiling to smithereens...
Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a beard "as pure as driven snow", George Lyman Kittredge retired in 1935, and his death last year leaves a gap in literary scholarship that no other authority can protend to fill. His "English 2; Six Plays" of Shakes peare, which he insisted on spelling "Shakespeare", was one of the most famous courses in the country...