Word: shortly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...already required, but only minor editing of the TV script is required for radio. "I'm writing just the way I've always written," says Gertrude Berg. "The only difference is that you can sustain a scene longer on TV. In radio, you break up short scenes with musical bridges...
That was the main reason 16-year-old Jesse Stuart decided to be a schoolteacher. He asked for, and got, his sister's old job. In time, he became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
...quickest killing was made by those who had sold the pound short-speculators and merchants who have been buying in Britain. The merchants had done this to protect themselves, in case of devaluation, from losses on goods ordered at the old rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion...
What started the onion boom was a Government forecast of a short crop-27.2 million sacks v. 31.6 million last year-and a trader's hunch that the Govrnment forecast was too high. As he started to buy, traders who were caught napping two years ago when a short crop swept the price up from $3.80 to $6.50 jumped...
...Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin...