Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit. Working like beavers, P.A.C. added 100,000 to the registration rolls. Because of this, Michigan, which went Republican in 1940, was swung to Roosevelt by a narrow margin...
Missouri. P.A.C.'s vote in St. Louis was the margin that put a state (given by most pollsters to Dewey) into the Roosevelt column...
...realized that a pursuit ship must come within 200 to 400 yards to score effective hits, it is readily apparent that the K-8 sight provides a really deadly defense" But while K-8 takes some of the human element out of shooting, there is still a wide margin for error...
...probable defeat, finally began to affect the electorate: Willkie's stock rose steadily and swiftly; his final rush to victory was nipped off only when Franklin Roosevelt made a smashing series of attacks on the poor Republican Congressional record, leading off with the "Martin, Barton & Fish" speech. The margin of Willkie's defeat was much narrower than is even now generally realized...
...reserve are only some 650,000 used cars held by dealers or in storage, and less than 20,000 new 1942 models not yet released. The margin of safety in the U.S. car supply is as thin as the tires on many of the cars still rolling...