Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia is still generations behind us with regard to consumption," says Alouishes A. Bergson, professor of Economics, but the U.S.S.R. is making substantial progress in bridging the gap...
Long since eliminated from the stalemate were such negotiable issues as wage hikes, on which the gap remained only a cent an hour. The big difference was one of principle, to wit, the industry's need for more flexible work rules so that the mills can use their work forces more efficiently to cover the costs of higher wages and higher benefits. Snapped R. Conrad Cooper, U.S. Steel Corp. vice president and top industry negotiator: "The basic position of the steel companies is not about to crumble whether or not there is an injunction." And even though auto assembly...
...strong statement was part of a massive readjustment of U.S. economic policy to fit the facts of modern economic life. Last year, chiefly because of spending for economic and military aid, the U.S. sent abroad $3.4 billion more than it received for its exports. Faced with a $4 billion gap in fiscal 1960 (ending next June 30), Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson has got the President's permission to cast a hard eye over next year's foreign-aid budget and audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy...
...last week's meeting, C.E.E.B. also: ¶ Announced a significant commission on English, aimed at analyzing the gap between achievement in U.S. high schools and requirements in U.S. colleges. Headed by Floyd Rinker, English chairman at Newton (Mass.) High School, the new group is patterned on C.E.E.B.'s commission on mathematics...
...German degrees, gave notice that soon they may give up. Sternly, the rectors rejected invitations to join Leipzig's birthday celebration, which to them seemed only a wake. Leipzig's rector, a complaisant agriculturist named Georg Mayer who took over in 1948, seemed undismayed by the widening gap between his institution and those of West Germany. Further widening, said he as Party Boss Ulbricht beamed, "is an objective necessity...