Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auto manufacturers confidently produced an estimated 578,370 cars in February, 23,000 above last year's rate, and intend to continue high production into March. Though General Motors' sales are lagging and Chevrolet production is being cut this week, Ford and Chrysler are happily filling the gap, using heavy overtime to boost production. (Chrysler has already shipped 10,390 Imperials for 1957, more than all it sold of the 1956 model.) This year so far auto manufacturers are keeping inventories firmly under control so that even if a warm-weather upsurge fails to develop they will...
...second half opened, the varsity's offense began to move. Bob Hastings, who had kept Harvard in the contest with five field goals in the first half, and Ike Canty began to shake Yale's tight man-to-man defense, and the varsity gradually closed the gap...
...main feature of Yale's lineup is its evenly balanced order and, consequently, its great depth. The gap in playing ability between its number one man, Charlie Kingsley and ninth , man Ash Eldridge is far smaller than that of any other Ivy team...
Though the U.S. oil pipeline system would gird the globe 7½ times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line...
...teams played evenly for the first seven minutes, but then the Crimson pushed ahead on Bob Barnett's eight quick points and led by 25 to 18. Fulcomer and Harrington were matching baskets, but Princeton steadied down at the end of the half and narrowed the gap...