Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days after the election, President Truman threw in the sponge in his administration's long-lost battle to hang on to price controls. In one sweeping order, the President brushed off price controls on everything but sugar and rice (both in short supply) and on rents. Out went the last wage and salary controls...
William G. Stratton, 32, short, shouting Republican who beat New Dealing incumbent Emily Taft Douglas for Illinois Representative-at-Large. Stratton jumped into politics at 26, was elected Illinois Representative-at-Large in 1940 chiefly on the reputation of his father, ex-Illinois Secretary of State William J. Stratton. In Washington he distinguished himself as a rabid isolationist, and by letting his frank be used for the mailing of pro-German propaganda. He came back this year partly on the Republican tide, partly because Illinois Governor Dwight Green did not want him in a state...
...trident expedition. Direct commander of Task Force 68 will be lean, bouncy Captain Richard H. Cruzen (No. 2 to Byrd and skipper of the Bear in the 1939-41 foray). He will have under him twelve ships in three groups, to cover the widest possible area in the short season of light. When a base is set up on the Ross Shelf Ice, planes will be flown in from a carrier...
...whole absurd panoply of totalitarianism is on display. . . . The multitudes of gaudy uniforms . . . soldiers with red tassels dangling from their overseas caps; the snappy, booted, armed police, with their short clubs strapped to their belts; the civil guard, in their odd tricorn hats; the municipal police in blue, the special border police in green . . . poker-faced plain-clothes men flashing their badges and demanding identification papers...
...leaving, perhaps, part of the blame on the shoulders of students themselves, who are shopping around for something better, hoping that the Housing office will find it for them. But more exactly, the blame may rest in the fact that a depreciated 90 per month goes only a certain, short distance in an inflationary postwar United States...