Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gap between engineering and pure science becomes great only beyond the elementary stage, and there are many cases of students who transfer, for example, from physics to an engineering science as late as their Junior or even the beginning of their Senior year...
When it comes to who's missing from the cast, the big gap is the absence of Carol Bruce, who put over a number of songs in the stage original. Paramount has dug up somebody named Donna Drake to fill in for her. Donna looks like Carol, all right, but that's all, and what were hit tunes on the stage are flops here. The other songs are effectively handled, although some of the best ones, especially "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow," are either left out or merely used as background music...
...beginning of this century, the sheepskin practically guaranteed a job. But by 1930 there were less than half the jobs open to more than four times as many college men, and it became apparent that there was a large gap between the training that the humanities and social sciences offered, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. Brilliant men, with A.B.'s in Fine Arts, Romance Languages, History--any of the vast choices which were regarded as the bulwarks of the "liberal and humane tradition," had little to offer in the way of specialized...
...many students, the solution to the gap between liberal training and the social demand was concentration in the exact sciences. According to Mr. Hanford, Harvard's social sciences "declined from nearly one-half of all concentrators 20 years ago to less than a quarter today," and the natural science majors "increased from one-fifth in 1921 to nearly one-third last year." These men could go straight from college into jobs with du Pont, General Electric, or similar firms who need specialized minds...
...principal credit for spotlighting forced saving: 1) Leon Henderson, OPA price fixer, talked ominously last February about the "inflationary gap." This year, said Henderson, in round figures, our spendable national income will amount to $80 billions. Only $65 billions of consumable goods (1941 prices) will be available. 2) England's urbane, puckish, innovating economist, J. M. Keynes, originally detonated the deferred-pay bombshell in November 1939. The Exchequer pooh-poohed Keynes in 1940, but put a part of his idea into the 1941-42 budget...