Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speed Limit. Another provision of the revised price control act gave Anderson the power to rule which farm products are no longer in short supply and thus automatically force OPA to cancel ceilings on them. Last week he found that many commodities were in sufficient abundance for OPA control to be removed during September. Ceilings would come off 25 vegetables and fruits (fresh, frozen and canned...
Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell, after five years of Spartan wartime exile, was back in Shangri-La, her marble-&-granite palace off Honolulu's Diamond Head. The short-time Hearst correspondent (she sent some earnest stories from Rome) flew in with eleven pieces of baggage and a couple of house guests, settled down among her waterfalls and fountains for a long rest. Had she plans for a future in journalism? Her considered reply: "Newspaper work is interesting...
...Short & the Long. Surveying the histories of several thousand psychoanalyzed patients, Psychoanalyst Joseph Wilder of Manhattan recently reported that there were few "cures," but "good results" (i.e., substantial improvement) in some 30-40% of the patients. About 20% of neurotics snap out of their funk without psychiatric treatment. Dr. Wilder's most significant finding: "brief psychotherapy," i.e., 30 to 40 sessions, produces just as good results as the prolonged orthodox treatment...
Kahn's success is measured in more than the money the weather houses bring in. Besides the flock of new accounts it has attracted to his revived and thriving ad agency, Kahn gets quantities of hand-knitted scarves, homemade candy, pecans, etc., from satisfied farm customers who are short on cash...
...question of whether I should be hanged or given a medal. If people hadn't copied, it would have proved that the idea was no good. I still think it is good. But the idea has been sold short...