Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.A.W. had won: ¶ A raise in pay of 18½? an hour - far below its original demand for a 30% increase, and short of the figure (19½?) set by Harry Truman's fact finders...
...diplomat thought it had still to be shown that Russia was the same kind of implacable enemy as Hitler. Official Britain thought the same; at week's end it still stood on the conviction that Russia would halt short of anything that would bring...
There are other elementary needs. Clothing is desperately short; raw cotton is needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...
...YORK, March 21-At 9:27 o'clock tonight any hopes for bringing a national championship to Cambridge faded into history, as Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet finished on the short end of a 46-38 score in the N.C.A.A. Eastern semi-final contest with Ohio State before some 18,000 cynical fans in Madison Square Garden...