Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreements were studded with escape clauses. If tariff cuts caused "serious injury" to U.S. domestic producers, they could be suspended or withdrawn. Any nation short of dollars could still resort to exchange controls, import quotas and other dollar-saving devices. In a world where dollars are short everywhere, that meant that tariff reductions now would probably not amount to much more than a one-way street into the U.S. for foreign exporters. If a rebellious Congress fails to renew the Trade Agreements Act next June, the other end of the road will soon be closed again...
Last summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...
This year the familiar pattern has again been--unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched of when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...Yale coach Howie Odell's four backfield starters, only quarterback and deadly short passer Tax Furse is completely whole. Line-bucking terror Ferd Nadherny still limps from the Princeton game last week, while halfback Art Fitzgerald suffers from a head injury received against the Tigers. The man Harlow foars most despite his questionable showing this fall is fullback Levi Jackson, who needs only one good afternoon to make football history...
Groups of Harvard students roamed the streets of New Haven until all hours singing loudly, and occasionally off key and with the wrong words, all the Harvard songs they know. It was a cold night, and the constabulary made no real short to keep the peace...