Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
...forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...
President Charles W. Cole of Amherst, one of the leaders of growing opposition to President Conant's plan for Universal Military Service, last night made his arguments public. Writing for Tuesday's issue of Look magazine, Cole states U.M.S. would create a two year gap in the flow of trained youth, "a break in our lifeline in the most crucial decade in our history...
...cannot compete with Russia in raw manpower," Cole says," Where we can compete is in trained, educated, skilled manpower." For this reason, he feels that U.M.S. would harm the nation: there would be the gap plus a situation in which many of the men would never complete their education after service. (U.M.S. would draft all men at 19 for two years in the armed forces...
...report terms "startling" the potential disruptive effect of inflationary pressures and points to a shortage of goods for civilian consumption resulting from stepped-up war production as "the essence of the 'inflationary gap...