Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyon Mackenzie, a stern and pious man who fled at 25 from awful poverty in his native Scotland, was a journalist, politician and rebel. He had led an armed rebellion in 1837 against an aristocratic oligarchy which was throttling representative government in what is now Ontario. The uprising was short-lived and forced him into exile, but it earned William Lyon Mackenzie a hero's page in Canada's history...
...atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...
...This was the most significant advance in trolley-strike technique since 1909, when strikebreakers in Philadelphia staged a strike-within-a-strike. Hired on the understanding that they could pocket the fares, the strikebreakers went in for private initiative, insisted on running the cars back & forth on busy, profitable, short-haul streets. Result: chaos on Market Street, no trolleys in Manayunk...
Washtubs & Sun Lamps. The three-ton question allowed no time for designing or building machinery. Dr. Harden used his laboratory as a factory and tried every short cut he could think of. First step was pouring a solution of uranium salt and other chemicals into a battery of wooden washtubs on the roof. There the photochemical action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight (on cloudy days, sun lamps) converted the transparent liquid into green, powdery potassium uranium fluoride. The second step: melting this secondary uranium salt in graphite cups for electrolytic separation of the pure metal. The electrodes were raised...
...reviewing British films for the past decade, the picture takes retrospective glances at scenes from such pictures as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Colonel Blimp. The film also introduces a few British faces still new to U.S. audiences: Googie Withers, Ann Todd, James Mason and Stewart Granger. This timely short should make U.S. cinemaddicts curious-and Hollywood's cinemanufacturers nervous-about Britain's celluloid exports...