Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat carried more moral force than military might. A Soviet veto could prevent punitive action by U.N. But the tone of the U.S. protest was proof of U.S. determination to take a stand in eastern Europe. If U.N. faltered, the U.S. would need to provide its own sanctions. Short of force the U.S., which shipped Yugoslavia $32,000,000 in wartime Lend-Lease, could hold up its share of the $100,000,000 in UNRRA supplies still undelivered to the Yugoslavs...
...Thompson, George Mead and Daniel W. Bell, who had bravely picked up the coals hot-handled them by Congress last July, had followed congressional standards in determining recontrol. The standards: 1) the price of a commodity must have risen unreasonably since June 30; 2) the commodity must be in short supply; 3) its regulation must be enforceable; 4) its recontrol must serve the public interest. These standards, in some respects political, in all respects loosely phrased, were Congress' way of hedging the free market...
...toughest problem facing the OPA (which granted 150 new price rises last week) was enforcement. Industry lobbies, strikes, the-black market, noncomplying housewives, congressional uncertainty and a short staff had all combined to frustrate the line-holders in the past. Would they do it again? With a show of confidence, Boss Porter said no, declared that OPA now had 2,500 investigators, double the old staff, to nail the black marketers. He also had a big enforcement budget, a method of centralized slaughter control and a lot of hope. He would need it all to keep the black market...
...Leningrad, ruled by Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, was waging an esthetic purge. Two outstanding literary figures, Poetess Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train...
...short, sirs, I suspect you are a fraud. Lyle Glazier. Instructor In English...