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...Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the "young Turk of Toryism," the fastest-growing man in the Conservative Party. His budget, a brave one, shapes up already as the outstanding success of the half-year. The drain on Britain's lifeblood, the dollar reserves, was slowed and the gap between dollars spent and dollars earned was closed last month to $71 million, chiefly as a result of Butler measures...
...rigger broke, and the oar came out. Two-man Swede Sundqvist missed one stroke, then threw the loose oar out of the boat, and followed it by diving out himself, the crew finishing with only seven rowers. Princeton sprinted when the Tiger coxswain saw the accident, closed the gap, and passed the Crimson, winning by half a length...
From time immemorial men--and women--have been interested in clothing. Naturally the greatest thinkers of all times have written on the subject of dress, and reams of folk-lore have grown up around the topic. There has developed, however, an enormous gap between those in favor of clothes and those against them...
...protectionist pressure, if not held back, can play havoc with the weak economies of America's partners abroad, and the greater the dollar gap, the greater the peril to the free world's security. The New York Times last week proposed a change in U.S. slogans; in place of "Buy American" it suggested "Buy Free World...
...South should be given some time to catch up on social progress, he continued, and federal minimum wage legislation should contribute toward a narrowing of the gap between the rates of textile workers' pay in the north and south...