Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debate was cut short as a prominent Peronista hurried to a cloakroom telephone, returned to whisper in the presiding officer's ear. The roll call began, and the deputies voted-by turning the electrical indicators on their desks to "Aye" or "No." The lights on the board above the dais flashed the result: 104 to 42 in favor of expulsion. "Let's see who runs to telephone la Señora!" hooted Radical Deputy Emir Mercader...
Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
Candid Microphone (Columbia), one of the most engaging programs on the air, now makes its movie debut with a ten-minute short...
Brooke enjoyed his short life too much to bear down often with sustained intensity on any writing, artistic or critical. Poverty and illness and ambition drove his poetic progenitor John Keats; but early success, doting friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters. From a Munich boardinghouse he described a "monstrous, tired-faced, screeching, pouchy creature, of infinite age and horror, who screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves...
...construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.'s Texas Special are always 90% booked, compared to 60% for those they replaced. Even on short hauls, streamliners gross up to 25% more than conventional trains...