Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the world combined. They received $360 million in foreign orders, not counting orders from the Dominions. And the British merchant marine, which lost two-thirds of its tonnage in the war, was back up to 18,070,000 gross tons last September, only 387,000 gross tons short of December 1939. Still the yards hummed. By last month, 827 merchant ships (over 100 tons) had been launched since war's end. Another 483 are under construction, most since...
...rebirth of Britain's merchant marine also involved a whopping financial gamble. Like many other British industries, British yards have become both slow and expensive. Timber and steel are short; delivery of generators and other suppliers' parts is often as much as 18 months late. Labor productivity is down, wages...
...fatalists." Coming from a critic who had hitherto bewailed America's indifference to her contemporary writers, Brooks's charges seemed a betrayal. The little magazines gave him a merciless drubbing, and Critic Edmund Wilson caustically rapped The Flowering for "chortling, beaming and crooning in a manner little short of rapturous over those same American household classics ... whose deficiencies . . . he had [previously] so unflinchingly brought to our notice...
...will strike most readers as being naive or evasive. He ignores the evidence of Annapolis Classmate Kimmel's laxness (borne out by one of the photographs in Halsey's book, TIME, Oct. 27), writes: "Who, then, is to blame? . . . The attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. . . . The blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else...
...Advocate, timid and hesitating when it came back last Spring has grown bolder now that it has re-established its old, though questionable, spot in the undergraduates hearts. In a word, it's getting more "aesthetic." The long, serious story smacks self-consciously of Jayvee, the short, light one of Virginia Woolf and what is really unfortunate, the medium-sized, straight forward story is loaded with cliches of technique and language. Some excellent art and drama criticism helps the magazine out of what many may consider the esoteric doldrums, but the real regret of the impartial follower of the Advocate...