Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterly that cheap foreign oil is wrecking domestic markets, keeping prices at low levels when they need more money to pour into new exploration. Importers (i.e.. Gulf Oil Corp., Shell Oil, Standard Oil of N.J.) counter that high imports are necessary to keep down prices by filling the gap between U.S. production and consumption, and that the import restrictions are in conflict with U.S. aims for freer world trade...
Gold balances were down again last month, and Britain's trade gap was still widening. The cost of living inched higher, helped by a penny rise in bread prices. The 20,000 reservists called to the colors because of the Suez crisis were restive and kicking up trouble in Cyprus and Malta military camps, and barracks at home. Millions of Englishmen were disgruntled at the course of Suez. Tories themselves were grumbling about their leaders. "We want more Conservatism, more quickly," cried fire-breathing Conservative Peter Emery of Reading, "and more guts in leadership...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...raise 500,000 troops by 1960. The difference between the U.S. Radford plan and Adenauer's plan for West Germany is a crucial one-West Germany, treaty-bound not to manufacture atomic weapons, has no nuclear firepower to substitute for manpower. As if belatedly noticing this big gap in his new line. Chancellor Adenauer last week also began suggesting that it was time for West Germany to have atomic arms. First the Chancellor startled Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak by asking his help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with...
...rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...