Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plug this gap workmen are now digging up local pipelines in the Southwest, assembling them into a makeshift cross-country pipeline. In addition oilmen have asked once more for a 1,400-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey, which has been twice turned down by WPB and predecessors for lack of steel. Finally oilmen have still another idea: let the Navy convoy tankers up the East Coast. But that is something the Navy is not likely to do until it has more warships or fewer places to fight...
Last week the U.S. was still behind, but the gap was closing. Red tape had been cut; doubters had ceased doubting. The only important limit now was shipping...
...colleges, including Princeton, Swarthmore, and Fordham, a different attitude prevails, for their teams have already played Army athletes. Less flexible is the problem of expenses. The cost of trips to Army camps and of umpires and equipment for home games would unbalance an already strained budget. To fill the gap the Athletic Department has asked the Corporation for a supplementary grant...
...delegating the hurling assignment to Waldstein, Stahl has presented himself with an additional problem. The versatile Junior has been playing left field between mound trails, and Stahl has had to fill the gap for this afternoon...
...attempt to close this gap, the first FORTUNE pamphlet (subject: Relations with Britain) was prepared by a committee headed by Raymond Leslie Buell, presiding officer of FORTUNE'S round tables, onetime president of the Foreign Policy Association, author (among other studies on international affairs) of Isolated America. The committee not only represented the editors of FORTUNE but, with collaboration from various editors of TIME and LIFE, obtained over a period of several months unofficial advice and criticism from diplomats of the United Nations, U.S. officials, many an expert on world affairs, internationalist and ex-isolationist alike. Purpose: to explore...