Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies, have been as busy as bees destroying the capacity to manufacture fertilizers." German nitrogen and phosphoric acid plants were being dynamited because they could be converted to munitions manufacture. The world's total nitrogen production (2,600,000 tons) is more than 1,000,000 tons short of world requirements...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, 10,000 earthworms were dug from under the lion house, packed on ice and hustled to an airport. Their destination: the Panama Canal Zone, where three finicky duckbilled platypuses, en route from Australia to the Bronx Zoo. were fast running short of earthworms, a platypus staple...
...Congress a short & simple resolution was pending, introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana: "That the Congress favors the creation of a United States of Europe within the framework of the United Nations...
Winter before last, Gardon had struck coal while digging in his field. Since fuel was short, he had taken the coal from the backyard. Sadly Gardon looked at the seven-foot hole in the ground. Said he: "C'est fini. I've been nationalized...
...theater is completely rebuilt. We asked a city architect why it had been rushed when housing was so desperately short. He answered: "We wanted our people, who have endured so much, to have some happiness now and a visible pledge of more happiness to come...