Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief moment it looked as if Britain had chosen retaliation and prestige. London suggested that the Vatican be lighted so that R.A.F. bombs would not hit the area. Since Mussolini would object strenuously if Vatican lights acted as beacons, the Vatican remained dark...
Departing in Iranian Army trucks and carriages of the Trans Iranian Railway were the men whose presence had set off the brief Iranian war: Axis diplomats en route to Berlin and Rome, and Axis technicians en route to internment camps in India. The new Shah would have new international friends...
Last week railroads, Government men and shippers held their breath to see if the railroads would squeak through October. At best, most of them expected some regional dislocations, brief but perhaps acute, and no one liked to think about the fall of 1942. Ralph Budd had estimated that the 1942 peak would require 160,000 more freight cars than there are now (other estimates went as high as 370,000 new cars). With or without a steel shortage, 160,000 is more new freight cars than have been built in any year since...
...just over six years since Benny Goodman brought a clarinet and thirteen musicians into a stodgy Chicago hotel to open a brief engagement wangled for him by an astute manager. Eight months later he was still packing them in on the same spot, "The Music Goes 'Round" was already out of the public ear for good, and the diluted jazz called swing was just beginning a successful job of artificial respiration on a music business which was on the verge of going down for the third time in the high seas of the depression...
...shipmate, James Arthur, was born in Glasgod, Scotland, and enlisted with the Royal Marines when he was 18 years and two months old. Both boys were entertained by their brief stay at the College and expect to return next Wednesday, when a soccer team collected from the 18 Marines aboard the "Newcastle" will meet the Harvard Varsity in a game arranged by Captain Jack Penson last night...