Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storch, 36, president of the Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.), had concentrated on industrial Lehigh County. "If I can win it," he had said, "we will have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called...
Dimmer. The Federal Power Commission somberly agreed with a forecast that the U.S. is due for a new electric light and power crisis. The margin between demand and capacity to produce is as narrow as it has ever been. Barely started on the greatest expansion program in its history, the industry expects the "tight squeeze" to last throughout next year and well into...
...ball-chasing, he manages to be one of the most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting and had a 16-point margin over his nearest National League competitor...
Prime Minister Attiee and his government survived by a narrow margin the onslaught of opposition leader Winston Churchill and division within their own ranks. Churchill last night called the Government "economic crisis" bill the equivalent of creating a dictatorship whose leader might be discarded at any moment...
...midnight drew near, crowds jammed the Senate galleries like spectators at a dance marathon. The House had finished its work with a comfortable margin; its members were lustily singing barbershop chords and happily contemplating a five-month vacation...