Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold December day in 1903, a gusty north wind was blowing across the sand dunes of North Carolina's coast. The wind blew sand into the eyes of Wilbur and Orville Wright as they moved their awkward flying machine out of its shed at Kitty Hawk. Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily...
Food Minister John Strachey, who keeps Britons' rations short, is long of nose, patience and temper. He has smiled tolerantly through many a public heckling from food-short Britons. Last week he got it hot & heavy again from howling Scots housewives in his own constituency at Dundee: "We want food; we don't want empty promises." Outside, after the speech, a crowd of women gave him a raucous parting boo. There was clearly nothing a gentleman could say, but what a gentleman could do John Strachey did: very courteously, he tipped...
Close up, the deal looked even better. The Russians promised heavy machinery, including electrical equipment, chemical and automobile assembly plants, a big steel works. They were all items of which Russia herself was short...
Dependent on the U.S. for its motor fuel supply, Cuba was going to be on short rations at least until spring eased the U.S. shortage and released tankers for the Cuban run. As a stopgap move, the government last week ordered sugar-mill owners to put aside 40 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the making of alcohol. Combined with gasoline, the alcohol would soon go into motorists' tanks as carburante national, a low-grade, high-knock fuel...
...that he hated Jews, but he named the Truman administration, the Marshall Plan, and the U. N. to be influenced strongly by a powerful "international Jewish organization," and his feeble defense of this opinion against belligerent questions, his refusal to make clear the possible motives of this organization--in short, the blatantly prejudiced, untenable, enigmatic nature of his entire stand, should suffice in itself to condemn him in the eyes of anyone who heard him speak. Similarly, Hart's defense of Franco Spain was so undisguised in its emphasis, so contradictory and illogical in its substance, that it would...