Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern, Japanese-built power plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
Going even further, his loyal wife, Evita, indicated last week that she thought the present kind of opposition little short of blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man like other men-that he is rather an ideal incarnate! For this, our movement may cherish him as its one leader without fearing that he will disappear on the unhappy day that Perón personally is missing...
Bespectacled, greying Brewer Garza, who heads the governing board of Monterrey's M.I.T., began plugging for the school soon after graduating from the U.S.'s M.I.T. in 1914. Not until 1943, when the war boom left them desperately short of technical help, did his fellow industrialists in Monterrey take him seriously. Even then, it required persuasive arguing ("You'll be insuring the future industry of the country") to get a dozen of the biggest companies to pledge a total of $2,200,000 for buildings and grounds, plus a percentage of their annual income for operating expenses...
...know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged me to go ahead...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army's Orders & Regulations, which contains advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army...