Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austerity was the keynote of the London office's Christmas, and most members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers...
...short, in George Marshall's opinion, peace depends on the success of U.S. efforts to help Europe help itself...
...deputy administrator and a $25,000-a-year roving ambassador for liaison work abroad. ECA would be responsible for continuing reassessment of each nation's needs, would "work with rather than supplant existing agencies" such as State (on foreign policy), Agriculture (food), Commerce (allocation of items in short supply), the National Advisory Council (financial policy...
...with the untoward. Neither were Tito's security boys. Hungary's friend made a formal entry by private train-but not until another train, crowded with soldiers, had tested the track. Resplendently panoplied, Tito strode into the Parliament building and marched to the elevator. Then he stopped short, shook his head and gestured with one hand. Obediently, a functionary rode the elevator to the top, descended again in a trial run. (The elevator worked for Tito, too, but stalled on the next trip, trapping President of the Republic Zoltan Tildy between floors for 20 minutes...
...Reds takes many forms. Some of them are in the Communists' own conspiratorial patterns. A reporter tracing anti-Communist forces in Milan this month could begin in the Great Hall of Sacred Heart University, on the day of Milan's patron saint, and arrive by a fairly short line at a midnight session with machine guns of the Catholic underground...