Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between their bargaining demand for 30% more pay and the 7½% offered by the President's fact-finding board (last cog of the mediation machinery provided by law), there was a gap as wide as a roundhouse door. But nobody, not even the men who planned to strike, wanted the strike to happen. They were certain, with the sureness of hope, that it would not happen...
Although 90% occupied with defense business, Revere Copper & Brass, copper fabricator, last week revealed that it had laid off 1,100 workers, 12% of its working force. It just could not get enough copper. Neither can the U.S.-OPM foresees a 770,000-ton (30%) gap between 1942 needs and supplies. Problem of the week was how to narrow this gap...
...only 2.6 billion bbl. against 5.15 billion in 1934-36. In 1928-30, when east Texas came in, the figure topped 10 billion. Demand, meanwhile, rose from 2.9 billion in 1928-30 to 4.3 billion in 1938-40. The lines are going in opposite directions, are leaving an oilless gap which may some day burn out the gears of U.S. industry...
Halles, in addition to urging an interval between the original and final armistice settlements, maintained that Germany should set up some form of constitutional monarchy as a means of bridging the gap between totalitarianism and democracy. Above all, the Germans should be allowed to have their own government, he argued...
Toughs from the slums getting ready to fight the collegeboys; middlewesterners talking about secession from "that British colony in the East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...