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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six months, Detroit's amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arrest | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great burst of emotion at the end, are like stepping-stones in a rushing stream, with awkward jumps between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Small-Town Big-Timer | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Wars weren't the only things that the system succeeded in winning. Since the resumption of the rivalry, the Crimson has come out on the short end of a 10 to 3 record, with two games ending...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Early Victories Give Crimson 16-10 Margin in Army Series | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Porter, on the other hand, supported the return of direct price control on consumer goods, a tax on excess profits, restoration of full rent control, extension of consumer credit controls, and allocation of critical materials in short supply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porter Supports Truman Program To Lick Inflation | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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