Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Short Snifter. In Philadelphia, the month's liquor rations at the Naval Air Material Center was doled out by Ration Officer I. M. Fried...
...Canada's National Defense Headquarters, startled by a request of Canadian Army women bagpipers for short kilts, ruled that man-sized kilts on a woman were a breach of Scottish tradition...
...Pearl Harbor Committee, which few lawyers regard as a possible stepping-stone to fame, finally found a new counsel, decided to adjourn for ten days so that he could catch up with the estimated 1,500,000 words of testimony and records before questioning Admiral Kinimel and General Short...
...Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department and the Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information. ¶ A report by the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox, made soon after the disaster, was also made public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after...
Toujours Lamoureux. In the English Channel, ex-G.I. Herbert J. Lamoureux, having cannily joined the Merchant Marine to return to his British war bride and child, plopped overboard, gamely attempted an icy five-mile swim to England's shore, was picked up, two miles short, placed aboard another U.S.-bound ship...