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...boost. After years of stagnation, the gross national product is now growing at an annual rate of 3.5%. Exports, which amounted to only $310 million in 1955, are expected to pass the $450 million mark this year. The increase in industrial exports has narrowed Ireland's trade gap from $271 million in 1955 to an anticipated $224 million for 1960. As the pace of industrialization quickens, the Irish hope to close the trade gap entirely...
...sturdily-built sophomore then proceeded to tally 10 of the Crimson's next 12 points to insure the victory. Most of his points came from the foul line, as the youthful Tufts squad committed foolish infractions in a desperate effort to close the widening gap...
...first half was very close, with the gap between the two teams never exceeding three points. Tufts displayed good shooting and hustling rebounding not characteristic of a team with a 1-4 record. Despite the Jumbos' strong performance, the Crimson's defensive rebounding and offensive attack was still not as good...
Famed as a critic of the "two-culture" gap between scientists and nonscientists, Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he was a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The New Men, The Masters, The Affair); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor. To illustrate his point, he said last week, "The best I can do is tell a story...
...Ohio east of buffalo, and west to Chicago and St. Louis, he wants to merge with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad through an exhange of .45 of a share of N. & W. stock for one of Nickel Plate's. To close the 111-mile gap between the end of his tracks at Columbus and the Nickel Plate's at Sandusky, he wants to buy the Sandusky Line from the Pennsylvania Railroad for $27 million. Finally, to push his network into Michigan and west to Omaga, he plans to lease the Wabash Railroad...