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...complained, "The present halls and cases are overcrowded and many interesting collections have to be kept in drawers or stored in the basement awaiting the completion of the building." It was through his determined efforts that money was raised to build a third part to Peabody, to close the gap and join it with the rest of the University Museum...
...Closing Gap. But the big reason for the gold outflow is that Europe's economy has recovered to the point where European countries have enough dollars to convert some of them into gold for their reserves. They are able to do this largely because of their high sales to the U.S. In March, U.S. imports reached an alltime high of $1,300,900,000, or 21% above a year earlier. Exports of $1,441,000 were 6% below last year at the same time. The once huge gap between exports and imports has narrowed so fast that...
GENEVA, May 17--Western diplomats said tonight they may have to negotiate a separate stop-gap settlement with the Soviet Union after full debate of rival East-West German peace plans...
...Aires last week to talk once again of Latin American economic development. To the U.S., the Latin American spokesmen said in effect: The gulf between your standard of living and ours is so broad that it threatens liberty and democracy in our countries. The U.S. reply: We deplore the gap, and last year sent $736 million in aid to close it. But you must help by showing some of the initiative that enabled our 13 original colonies to build from poverty to prosperity...
...some kind of terms. But Treasury officials know that their financing problems are a great deal bigger than outsiders realize. The chief source of the trouble is deficit spending and fears of more inflation. Not only did the Treasury have to make up for an estimated $13 billion gap between income and outgo this fiscal year, but by the end of 1962 it must refinance $129.5 billion in public debt, most of it incurred during World War II and Depression days...