Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband was in the Army 18 months, twelve of which were spent overseas. My pay, for myself and two children, was $20.12 short of what the taxpayers so generously gave Mrs. James F. Byrnes in the form of a tray. I am proud that my husband fought for his generous country but many times in that year and a half I could have swallowed my pride for an extra ten bucks...
Sometimes you didn't even have to pay extra. In towns where toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival of chain-store trucks, and got first grab. Although it was always correct to tip, when in doubt, it was often possible to become a preferred customer simply by beaming at the high prices. And if you knew the right man in the right line anything was possible...
...gain one concession after another from us, Russia hopes to profit by the well-known reluctance of democracies to risk war and the equally well-known ability of dictatorships to do so or at least to appear to be running the risk. Such a policy usually has a short-range advantage for the dictatorships. But it ultimately leads to war. The concessions, which the democracies make, pile up fears and resentments among even a reluctant population until the moment is reached when even democracies are forced to make a stand. Meanwhile the same concessions increase the boldness and the strength...
Organized by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, Director of the Geographical Institute, W1AF will, at first, be limited to 10 to 15 students of Geography 37; but Coburn said that other members may be elected by special vote after the short-wave station swings into full operation...
Rice introduced a comparatively new theory in exploration when he organized a course in field communication here in 1930, shortly after he had become the first explorer to use either serial photography of short-wave field communications in five expeditions to locate the headwaters of the Amason River...