Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather than England seemed to be the power that played with Soviet Russia for the great stakes of influence in postwar Europe and Asia. But in 1943 Roosevelt's political control of the U.S. had been reduced to a lower margin than in any other year of his three terms. The nation endorsed his plans for war & peace (as far as they could guess them)-but not necessarily himself...
First week's results: 1) Iowans favor farm subsidies by a tiny margin, pro-subsidy sentiment in cities nosing out anti-subsidy sentiment among farmers; 2) only 40% of all Iowans questioned knew for sure what subsidy means...
...bituminous tons for the year, against peacetime's normal 400,000,000 tons. But consumption, including shipments to Europe, has risen too, to more than 600,000,000 tons. The deficit has come off the national stockpile-now down to about 65,000,000 tons, providing a safety margin of only 37 or 38 days' supply. But the prime cause of last week's domestic shortages was that what coal the nation had was in the wrong places; the strikes had dislocated normal distribution. Labor trouble was another obstacle to righting distribution: while New Yorkers shivered last...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
...Many industries will not have a sufficient profit margin. A demand for too much in such an industry would simply result in closing the plants. Labor, like business, must fulfill its obligations to society. The alternative is government regulation...