Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estate. A Los Angeles dealer reported that his volume had "fallen off 75% in the last 60 days." On the heels of the labor strikes, which had helped push prices up by raising wages and curtailing production, a general buyers' strike might well be in the making. A short one might be a good thing. A long one would end all Washington's worries about the boom. In that case, Washington could concentrate on the bust...
...short, the Cuban electorate approved Grau's strongly prolabor, socialistic program which had included Government seizure, retention and operation of factories, fuel supplies, and trolley lines. The election results also proved that the Communists had the power to deliver the labor vote in smashing style...
...suspense in the opening scenes of this hasty production. Then the plot drops Ladd and Fitzgerald into Nazi-held France, but leaves all novelty behind. Most of the incidents based on real O.S.S. experiences turn out to be the old, threadbare ingredients of wartime melodrama: contacting the French underground, short-waving vital messages to London, dynamiting a railway tunnel, throwing the beautiful female operator to the Gestapo wolf...
...classic example of short-sightedness and bad faith Sheeks quoted the current policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands which will receive their independence on July 4, 1946. "It was this promise," he claimed, "which kept them fighting for us during the long years of war. It is the belief in this promise that made them destroy their homes, made them scorch the earth, and fight from the hills...
...Starting short on experienced players, Coach Bob Maddux's stick-wielding lacrossemen had a spotty season, winning one of four Varsity contests and taking half of their six Jayvee battles. M.I.T. provided the squad's lone victory, but this was sandwiched in between defeats by Tufts, Dartmouth, and Williams...