Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuffy conference room, John Taber fought a rear-guard action against ECA. Time & again the conference broke up in despair. But Senate leaders were determined. By Saturday evening, Taber's House support had fallen away. Abruptly, Taber gave in. The ECA got $4 billion (only $245 million short of Administration requests), to spend in twelve months, if necessary...
President Truman's domestic program got short shrift. Congress refused to act on requests...
...heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...
...night last week the speedy auto-rail train which links Paris with the rubber-manufacturing city of Clermont-Ferrand ground to an unscheduled stop five miles short of its destination. Surprised passengers stumbled over luggage piles into waiting buses and heard a guard explain: "The station at Clermont-Ferrand is in the hands of Communists." The "Akron of France" had become the scene of France's bloodiest battle since liberation...
...Dominion's Labor Department, Canadian housewives have a reputation as the country's toughest employers. They are always short of domestic help, seldom satisfied with what they have. Their sternness, plus the attraction of jobs in factory and store, long ago began to whittle down the supply of Canadian maids who could turn out tasty meals, dust in the corners and keep a civil tongue...