Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the postwar decline in take-home pay, on which Reuther based his famed demand for a 30% wage increase, had stopped far short of Reuther's figure. Latest Department of Labor figures show that take-home pay for all industry dropped only from $45.45 in wartime July to $41.02 in October...
...came out, Editor Green herded his staffers (Variety calls them "muggs") upstairs into a dusty, top-floor parlor. He was going away for 'a couple of months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would be boss. Out in Hollywood, Green will help Warner Bros, erect it's long-planned monument to the man who made slangy Variety the "showbiz" oracle it is: Founder Sime ("Mr. Broadway") Silverman...
Enlistments and re-enlistments totaled about 400,000. But the pool of such volunteers was fast drying up, and too many had only signed up for short terms-12 or 18 months-because they feared that otherwise they would be caught in the draft and kept in longer...
...accurately charted by radar. So says Britain's famed physicist, Sir Edward Appleton, the man who proved that the earth is swaddled in concentric, electrically charged layers of atmosphere. Sir Edward's theory: radio echoes, bounced off the moon's surface by an extremely short-waved transmitter, could be used to picture the moon's terrain...
...baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...