Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talking to newsmen at Gettysburg, where he went to report to President Eisenhower, Twining slightly modified the stand he took in February (when he told a Senate committee that the Russians "have overtaken us in quantity" and "are closing the quality gap" upon which the U.S. depends for its lead in the airpower race). Last week Twining said that while the Russians probably have more jet aircraft than the U.S., "it's not numbers now [but] the mission of what they are going to do. That is the distinction...
...former secretary and right-hand man, Nikos Kranidiotis, showed up in London with a proposal that he and the other five members of the archbishop's advisory council would be glad to relay any new British offers to Makarios, and Makarios himself wrote a letter suggesting that the gap between him and the British before his exile last March "was not wide." Still, if the British could only get their hands on Grivas, they would feel in a much stronger bargaining position...
...over the U.S., the gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted human resource. Some of Potential's tables show the school experience as of 1950 of young Southern Negro men. Most of them came from poor, unstable families; many had stunted intellectual potentials before they ever arrived at school. In the 18-19-year age group, 1.7% never got to school at all. Of this group, 17.7% completed only one to four years of school. High-school diplomas were won by only...
...drop in prices, which had put the market in the same position where it had found strong support in the last two big corrections (see chart), had made some of the blue chips inviting again. Investors who had shifted out of blue chips as their rise narrowed the gap between the yield on the stocks v. the yield on bonds, now had good reason to go back into them again...
Last week's deal was eight years in the making. Bachelor Eugene C. Eppley, 72, a big stockholder in both Hilton and Sheraton chains, had long been anxious to retire. Sheraton's purchase, said Henderson, will "substantially narrow the gap" between his chain and Hilton's. With new hotels abuilding in Philadelphia and Dallas, the Sheraton empire now boasts 54 hotels, 25 more than the Hilton chain, although Hilton has 1,700 more rooms and grosses some $40 million more a year. All the Eppley hotels are in new territory for Sheraton, and all but three were...