Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then it's just a matter of eating, drinking, lying out in the sun and listening to the grass grow...
...world situation is sunny next January, Harry Truman can recommend his own tax-cut measure and get the credit for it in an election year. His crisis line could be taken as a tip that Harry Truman is also ready for dirty weather, prepared to treat 1948 as a short-of-war year, a time to face up to the threat of World War III and no time to change White House horses in midstream...
...House overrode the veto 299 to 108. Republican leaders congratulated one another with grins and handshakes, but their joyfulness was short-lived. The Senate, by five votes, failed to override. Enough Democrats had been impressed by the "world crisis" argument...
Arthur Horner himself, with a grimness he almost seemed to relish, told 50,000 of his men at Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
This was the first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...