Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these lopsided figures, the Reds are narrowing the gap, both in pilot ability and tactics. Said Colonel Francis S.("Gabby") Gabreski, an ace in two wars: "We used to go up and find them spread out like sitting ducks. This time they were in flights of four stacked up at all altitudes. Their pilots are better and their system's better. They're as good as any German pilots I met during the last...
...power were good. Since the close vote of 1950, Labor has clung to office by a fingernail parliamentary majority (at one time as narrow as three). For months, Attlee and his ministers have been watching the gathering clouds of a new economic crisis. The old demon, the dollar gap, is back. The coal mines cannot supply the demand for fuel. Electric power shortages are developing. Millions of Britons face another dreary winter of insufficient coal for their fireplaces. The cost of living is rising toward a new high...
...School started earlier by two weeks, the current gap between Harvard and Yale closings, it would begin sessions about a day after Labor Day, too early for most students. Since a commencement has to coincide approximately with the endings of all the divisions of the University, adjustment of the schedule difficulty is almost impossible...
...Medium (Walter Lowendahl) is the most skillful and imaginative effort so far to bridge the gap between movies and opera, but it still leaves the gap wide open. Shooting in Rome to gain atmosphere and save money, Composer-Librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti has preserved the musical values of his successful short opera while turning it into a curious mixture of sometimes effective, sometimes static cinema sequences...
Little Shaver. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., 13-year-old Private Robert Young was discharged from the Army after officers noticed that he had no whiskers...