Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like U.S. Army Exchange Service) and needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout the world, and TLI had to set up a global shopping service to provide them...
Food is in short supply in most countries, too, and Buekner dispatches 200 food packages to the overseas bureaus each month. The one worry he does not have is fretting his purchases through customs at the other end. Russian customs officials, for instance, once levied 3,600 roubles ($300) on some stationery that TLI's Moscow bureau chief had ordered. It took endless dickering to get the stationery released at a sensible...
...same time, Jesse Freidin, former general counsel for the National War Labor Board, told the meeting that the industrial disputes which have occurred since V-J Day have been abnormal. "There is a readiness to sell collective bargaining short on the pancity of normal situations," he said...
From a directorial standpoint, too, the production was outstanding Timing in most cases was little short of phenomenal for amateurs. The only flaws which could stand correcting are some muddled first-scene calls with a resulting lack of expectancy for Lefty, too-long intermissions which let the audience fever down, and a rather rushed reception to the news of Lefty's death at the close...
Following the three-day run at Sanders Theater, the Club will take the production on a short road tour to Smith and Wellesley...