Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost immediately the presidential party left the airport for a short visit with the President's 93-year-old mother, feeling much better after her recovery from a summer cold. Then they drove the 17 miles to Independence, where 300 of Harry Truman's old friends were assembled on the lawn of the old frame house...
...neighboring area of national defense Congress fell short of the mark-and reflected the will of the people in the process. By its clamor to bring the boys home it forced a nervous War Department to pull down its Army: it buried a universal-military-training law under the woodshed; it stripped away the strength of the Draft...
...with a handful of scored and pitted electrical fittings from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the answer to the most publicized of recent airplane crashes. The cause: a smoking short circuit in the forward baggage compartment of the sleek Connie, where wires from the generators are piped into the pressurized fuselage...
With last Wednesday's contest against Squantum washed out by a heavy down-pour, Coach Adolph Samborski's summer varsity drew a damp end to a short, inglorious summer baseball campaign...
Despite the July-August draft "holiday," during which officials hoped to step up the enlistment program with promises of a 50 per cent increase in pay for buck privates--from $50 to $75 a month--and other benefits, the program has fallen short because of several factors...