Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joe Martin rose to speak, a short man in a white suit leaped to his feet and shouted: "Three cheers for the next President." The crowd cheered. Joe Martin blushed and his voice choked. His speech was barely coherent, but everybody heard him when he said at the end: "This will be an event that as long as time itself, I can never forget...
Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...
...time it takes to adjust a girdle, the nation's advertising writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...
...most of the first two postwar years, aluminum, thanks largely to its availability when other materials were short, continued in high demand. But this spring, as fabricators' inventories were filled, demand slacked off. Today much of the industry is running at about 75% of capacity. To regain lost ground, aluminum must compete with the other materials in price as well as in utility...
...agreement" by which western railroads since 1934 have slowed their fastest freight lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...