Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers live about as well as before the war," said Kenjo Otsuka, a short, grinning ex-soldier of 31, "and former tenants live better than they did. But the price of what we sell has not kept up with the price of what we buy." A koku (about five bushels) of rice, which before the war sold for $8, now sells for $14. The bicycle that every farmer needs has risen from...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...
...whole battery of specialists. Great progress has been made recently by private clinics and such researchers as Dr. Winthrop M. Phelps, director of the famed Children's Rehabilitation Institute in Cockeysville, Md. Various state legislatures have also appropriated funds. But facilities and trained personnel are so short that only about 10% of the cerebral palsied get the necessary kind of training and care...
...brown-skinned man with the golden horn pursed his scarred lips, blew a short stream of incredibly high, shining notes and then carefully laid the trumpet down. "There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life," he graveled, "and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulus' Parade. After that I'll be ready...
...days, Farnsworth led the big board in the number of shares traded, and dropped to 1⅞. At week's end, Farnsworth stockholders had still to approve the deal. But those who had known about it could have-and may well have-cleaned up by selling Farnsworth short. The SEC was "looking into the matter...