Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creator of this latter day Water Music is a short, jumpy Tin Pan Alleyite named Frank Loesser, who has a remarkable talent for tunes that at first attract and then nauseate. His biggest hit was Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; another song of his, Tallahassee, is climbing on the hit parade...
...short life he had known nothing but hardship and hunger. Erich Kaniss was a small, silent, Berlin boy, with weary eyes in a thin, pinched face. He had been four when the war began. Now he was twelve...
When that story appeared in print before, it was frankly labeled fiction. In a short story about supersonic flight, in the April 5 Saturday Evening Post, one of Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
...this meant that the U.S. would not get the drop in food and clothing prices which had been expected in the fall, there was some debate. Typical was the argument over meat. The Department of Agriculture feared that corn would be at least 200,000,000 bu. too short-and too expensive-to maintain meat production at present levels. On the other hand, the American Meat Institute saw "no drastic effect on meat supplies or prices." Nevertheless, top grade beef in Chicago rose to $30.50 a cwt., highest since last January. Not till all the crops were in would...
...half of San Antonio's population of 253,854, they have taken little part in the civic life of the city. The Mexicans, segregated on the West Side, have been virtually ignored by the rest of San Antonio's citizens. One who did not ignore them was short (5 ft. 6 in.), good-natured Gaetano Anthony Lucchese, 50, son of a Sicilian immigrant. When Tano Lucchese was 17, his father* sent him to the West Side to manage the old Zaragoza theater. Lucchese liked the movie business; he also liked and understood Mexicans. They liked...