Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point where, the day before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought to get 434 votes on the first ballot. Dewey did. Adding up his information for the second ballot, Fuerbringer came out with 509 Dewey votes. He was six short of the correct total and is inclined to send stern letters to the delegates who crossed...
...loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch. It would move surely, after poring over all the facts. It would be alert, but would avoid any sudden changes of policy. It might be short on imagination, but it would certainly be long on efficiency...
There was a short delay. An angry Sigler, in shirtsleeves and plastic suspenders, got up to deny the truth of the Michigan rumor. Michigan had not deserted Vandenberg, he said. The voting began. The score on the first ballot: Dewey, 434; Taft, 224; Stassen, 157; Vandenberg, 62; Warren, 59. Dewey had not made it. Bingo...
...current Connecticut State Medical Journal, Drs. Max L. Berlowe and Francis L. Herrick describe the results of 200 cases in the Grace-New Haven (Conn.) Community Hospital. Of the first 100 patients, 76% got complete relief from pain; of the second 100 patients, 96%. Only complications: headache and short periods of nausea and vomiting (possibly not due to the anesthetic). There was no dangerous lowering of blood pressure, a frequent complication in childbirth...
...five-year goal set as a bare minimum for one year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount of detriment...