Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit? All right-but only one pair of trousers, shorter coat, no trouser cuffs, tails, vents, belts, pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets, yokes or patch pockets. Suits will use some 26% less cloth. Civilians will get only 10-20% as much new wool as they got last year...
Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...
...same time James F. Whelap, Jr. '45 won the Freshman Managerial position after a somewhat shorter competition. He will take charge of '45 swimmers' meet with Yale next week...
...Procter & Gamble, studying its soap opera commercials, wondered if more but shorter ones might create an illusion of less total commercial time...
...were shorter, more compact, and perhaps a little less heroic in tone, "One Foot in Heaven" might rank as one of the outstanding movies of the year. As it is, it's rather tiring and dull. But its high-spots are worth seeing; they make you wish there were more of them...