Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
...beat the bushes for meat," cried Clint Anderson. "The time has passed when we can fool around with the OPA and price controls. Once the meat pipelines are filled, I can then declare that meat is no longer in short supply and we can have the controls taken off and meat will continue to flow into the channels of trade. That's the quick and reasonable way to end the meat crisis, and I'm confident that that's what will happen...
Nevertheless, other delegates to the 18-nation Economic & Social Council (called ECOSOC* for short) found Feonov an easier man to deal with than such wolf-eating lambs as Molotov, Vishinsky and Gromyko. Feonov actually promoted shirtsleeved sessions in smoke-filled hotel rooms in an effort to break impasses on the council floor. But he could not break the bonds of Russian policy...
...Mostly they concerned such matters as world health, narcotics control, an International Refugees Organization. Russian intransigence blocked a U.S.-favored proposal for a central commission to coordinate Europe's economy; but a 450-page report was drafted on recovery in devastated areas. Russia blocked an attempted short-term solution of the Danube River problem. When the U.S. proposed a Vienna conference on the Danube question in November, Russia said that the Danube countries would boycott...
...after another, to demand clear answers to hard, embarrassing questions. Spearheaded by bright up-&-comer Peter Thorneycroft and bubble-eyed Quintin Hogg, they asked: What is Tory policy on full employment? Do we believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made a weary retort: "I don't know why people should worry so much about . . . policy. It isn't a thing you state, it grows out of circumstance...