Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They smothered the bill with amendments which would make the draft a ghastly joke. The House eagerly adopted most of them. Cried Missouri's Dewey Short: "You have perhaps not beheaded this monster but you have dehorned it . . . Why don't you be honest and defeat...
...small foreign-language paper, Manhattan's Amerikai-Magyar Népszava, a Hungarian daily, was getting a lot of attention in international short-wave circles last week. A new editorial team had just taken over. And while a well-wishing message from President Truman was beamed to Central Europe by the Voice of America, the Moscow radio lambasted the new management as a bunch of rascals...
...Kennedy has shied from the lure of fancy new equipment. "We could have transferred to bigger, 40-passenger planes," says he, "but it would have increased the operating costs to a point where we'd have been forced to cut down schedules." He thinks the moneymaking trick for short lines is to have plenty of schedules-and keep them...
...Forms. The-Treasury Department ruled out further use of the withholding tax receipt as a "simplified" tax return form for incomes of $5,000 or less. Reason: this "simplified" form (called W2) had proved "too confusing." To replace it, the Treasury is revising the 1040-A "short form...
...Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...