Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking aim all the way from San Francisco, touring Soprano Lily Pons let fly: "New York City is a crowded, dirty madhouse." French-born Lily also knocked Paris fashions. "Zut," she sputtered, "first they are too long, now they are too short. I think the American women wear them best. Me, I'm too petite, always in the middle...
Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan...
...team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey. He's got the build. And those hands." King gave...
With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For the last four years, using the call letters W5BNK, he has held early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio...
...short, sharp paragraphs, the report dispelled any idea that the dollar shortage is something new; it started 35 years ago and has grown steadily worse ever since. Between 1914 and 1949, America's exports exceeded her imports by $101 billion. This "socalled favorable balance of trade," said the report, was largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only...