Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed. But by last week all that had changed. In the last three months of 1949, coffee prices almost doubled. U.S. consumption had soared above prewar levels, and Latin America's output lagged behind. Cowgill thinks that the work he has been doing will help close the gap...
...before the Indians began to hit. Once they did, they moved to within seven points of the leaders midway through the second half but Harvard held a 13-point advantage with five minutes to go and, although they cut this down to ten, the Dartmouths could not close the gap...
...success in stabilizing its consumption and production of the world's goods. The balance between U.S. exports and imports in a world still struggling to get back on its productive feet was as dangerously out of whack as ever. The hope that EGA would somehow close the huge gap between imports and exports had gone glimmering in 1949. At year's end, the U.S. had sold an estimated $12.5 billion abroad and had imported only about $6.5 billion; the gap was almost as big as it had been at ECA's start. Even the desperate remedy...