Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugh Drum found his First Army (one of the four field armies into which the Regular Army and National Guard are divided) short of combat strength by 246,000 men, 3,063 machine guns, 348 howitzers, 180 field guns. What the U. S. needs, said he, is not its traditional, skeleton Army, to be expanded after war is declared, but "the creation in peacetime of a well-trained, adequately equipped and well-organized fighting force...
...than they had previously dug on eight. Working hours for men have been pushed up until two twelve-hour shifts have been reached in some industries. Men returning from work on the Siegfried Line say that they were driven 15 hours a day-from dawn to dark, with two short rests...
...three major U. S. broadcasting systems and several short-wave stations broadcast speeches to the four quarters of the earth. High point of the Congress came when Earl Baldwin (whom Dr. Butler in the excitement introduced as "Earl of Bewdsley") rose to speak. He began calmly...
...July peak could be bought back for ten points less. Those who profited by this turn of events were chiefly professional traders. SEC has since reported that at the peak, in the last half of July, while the public was buying heavily, Exchange members did 78% of all short selling. Last week the public thought that the professionals were lucky in finding Mr. Hitler working for them at Danzig...
This did not mean short wavers were busily peddling air time to advertisers who wanted to cry their wares abroad. No station yet has a sponsor, probably because distance broadcasting has not yet had an opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already...