Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more acres under cultivation than she did before the war, the Army has called up thousands of farm workers, plans to take 20,000 more after the next harvest. The 30,000 land girls, conscientious objectors, interned aliens and volunteer farm workers do not even fill the gap numerically. With a Government budget of ?350,000,000 a year for emergency construction, the building trades have been calling desperately for some of the 100,000 building workers in the Army...
...vote, thought wives might imagine that it somehow abridged their rights. When they marshaled their forces in the House this week, they obliterated the joint-returns proposal like a Panzer division going through a troop of Girl Scouts. They did not even stop to fill the $323,000,000 gap where joint returns had been. Instead, they rolled on, passed the rest of the bill as it stood, left the mopping up to the Senate...
...Fronts. Hitler's battle for Moscow had its focus at Smolensk. He had broken through the Stalin Line at the gap near Smolensk-the open space between the defending Dnieper and Dvina Rivers, north of Orsha (see map, p. 16). Through the gap the usual spearhead poured and for the first time Moscow itself was a Luftwaffe target. In a five and a half hour night attack, 200 planes planted big explosions near the Kremlin, said Berlin. But the Russians declared that only "isolated" raiders got through, called the attempt a "failure...
...this was bitter return for the cost: 500,000 men immobilized on the Eastern Front. Half of these men might have turned the scale in the West. Military experts are of the opinion that only a few cavalry divisions would have been necessary to widen the gap in the Allied line in April 1918, so that general retreat would have been inevitable; there were then three cavalry divisions occupied in occupying the Ukraine...
...casting industry employs less than 25,000 workers and represents only 125 independent companies, most of them very small. But quite apart from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...