Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold-shouldered by dealers in May when a "new used" Chevrolet sedan went for $2,260 ($984 above the list price), found that he was loved in December. Lincolns, Kaisers, Frazers and Hudsons could be bought right off dealers' floors. So could trucks and farm equipment, once as short as Chevvies. After a long climb, employment and production in some industries were both dropping "unseasonally" at year's end. Though employment, at 60.1 million, was almost one million above the end of 1947, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost-of-living index, which reached a postwar peak...
...been none too good in 1947, had become, in the cautious words of one industrialist, "satisfactory." Said the National Industrial Conference Board: about 67% of the companies it surveyed reported that productivity had increased from 1% to 28% over 1947, with an average increase of 7½%. In short, with 4% more in the industrial labor force, the nation turned out 9% more goods...
...Done. As 1948 began, oil was so short that oilmen worried about a .return to rationing (during one cold spell, New York City had to beg oil from the Navy to keep its hospitals and schools warm). To stave off rationing, oilmen earmarked $5 billion for expansion in 1948-49 and worked as never before. Wildcatters roamed the U.S. far & wide, looking for oil in the most unlikely places...
Green Hair falls short not because it hasan idea but because it has one too many (it tries to preach against both war and intolerance), and because it labors so clumsily to 'cram its ideas into the mold of "entertainment." As a result, the message seems as contrived and insincere as a singing commercial, and just about as entertaining...
...small publishing firm of Devin-Adair has now brought out a selection of 15 of O'Faoláin's short stories. They are like pieces chipped off a larger design, showing, despite their incompleteness, a wonderful workmanship...